Mark Bixby wrote:
>
> Lars Olof Andersson writes:
> >
> > John Nesbitt wrote:
> > >
> > > One of the things I would like to do is send email from batch jobs
> > > across the Bank's ethernet lan to the person responsible for the job
> > > Has anyone done this and, if so, could you give me a pointer to
> > > available products?

Jim Wowchuk created a standalone mailer some time ago.  Details escape
me, but it can send mail to an SMTP server (either the destination or
a designated relay) and worked back on MPE 4.0 :-)  The file is in a
UHAUL truck format (this pre-dates MOVER and friends) and is available
from:
   http://opus.admin.utc.edu/hp/jtmailtr.wrq  [Reflection Labels format]
or http://opus.admin.utc.edu/hp/jtmailtr.wrq  [Straight binary image]

Use UHAUL to extract it, documentation, source, and executable are in
there somewhere :-)

Back to Mark Bixby:
> I needed to be able to send e-mail from a web CGI script under 5.5.  Initially
> I tried the freeware NetMail/3000 from www.3k.com, but found out that the
> freeware version won't send mail from batch jobs.
  [snip details of perl code using Net::SMTP]
> Note that I had to manually rebuild Perl to support select() in order to do
> Net::SMTP.  I don't know if Mark Klein has rebuilt the binaries he distributes
> to support select().  Rebuilding Perl is not for the meek.  :-)

Indeed.  If he hasn't done so, you should send him the diffs; let's get
this incorporated into the FREEWARE distribution for next time around.

> The ultimate e-mail solution would be for Internet sendmail to be ported to MPE.

It has been, with mixed success; at least some efforts have been thus
far expended.

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>