[lug] redirecting into mail

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Thu Feb 6 09:38:59 MST 2014


Chip Atkinson wrote:
> If you can telnet to port 25 on the ISP, you could then use netcat to send a file with the smtp
> chat.

Good heavens.  mail(1) should be fine and if you've already gone through the trouble of setting up 
all the headers there's almost certainly sendmail(8) or similar available.  I'm sure it can be 
convinced to read a message (with headers) from a file and deliver it.

Dave


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