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Subject: Re: XATO Advisory: Win32 Command-Line Mailers
From: John Howie (JHowieMSN.COM)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 02:03:38 CST

I believe the XATO advisory is flawed in that it makes several assumptions
about how a Web-server is setup and configured.

Regardless of this, a little known feature of Windows 2000 obviates the need
for a command-line mailer. If you install Internet Services (WWW, FTP, etc.)
you also install a damned good SMTP server. If you simply write a valid
file containing To: and From: lines to the directory
c:\InetPub\mailroot\Pickup (or equivalent for your setup) it will be sent
out by the server. You don't even need Windows 2000 Server as it is
available in the Professional product too.

john...

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