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Re: Sendmail Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BORG)
Thu Oct 24 02:50:23 1996
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 23:44:43 -0700
From: BORG <vladimip@iceonline.com>
To: iburrell@leland.Stanford.EDU
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Ian Burrell wrote:
......
> > To make some analogies, sendmail is like the guy in the back room of the
> > post office, sorting mail into this bin or that bin. SMTP is like the
> > mail man, he picks up mail from the post office and delivers it to other
> > mail-men, or other post-offices, he also can pick it up from the mail box
> > and bring it back to the post office. POP is like a P.O. Box, you have to
> > go to it to get your mail.
>
> Good analogy. SMTP can also deliver directly to your home or office,
> if you are running sendmail, a server that is always waiting to accept
> mail.
...just like if you had a post office in your basement
and a couple of little mail-men running back and forth. :)
I like the discussion. I wish FAQs and man pages were
written in that style, life would have been easier.
So far I haven't seen a single person who figured out
the basic usage of gzip or tar just by reading their
man pages without asking anyone or looking at other
sources instead. Or is it me who's just so stupid that
spent 2 hours reading the above mentioned man pages
and understood less than from a 5 minutes explanation
by my college instructor ?
Thanks,
Vlad
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