Re: How to send email without using email client

FROM : Jens Alfke
DATE : Fri May 09 21:22:35 2008

On 9 May '08, at 11:03 AM, j o a r wrote:

> This is typically a bad idea for another reason: With the amount of 
> spam in circulation today, many - If not most - mail servers now 
> flat out reject email that is not sent from reputable mail servers


I don't think that's an issue. The "sendmail" command doesn't try to 
send the email directly to the recipient's domain (unless you 
configure Postfix to do so); instead it contacts the local SMTP server 
and submits the message to it, just like Mail would. At least that's 
what happened when I did this.

—Jens