https://whynothugo.nl/tags/email/Recent content in Email on WhyNotHugoHugo -- gohugo.ioenTue, 16 Jan 2024 13:55:28 +0100https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2024/01/16/nine-months-of-xendmail/Tue, 16 Jan 2024 11:27:11 +0100https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2024/01/16/nine-months-of-xendmail/Last year I wrote xendmail, a tool based on the proposal mentioned in my thoughts on sendmail in 2023 article. Xendmail exposes the same interface as sendmail1, it takes an email as input, reads credentials from the user’s secret store, and dispatches the email via an the appropriate SMTP server. Xendmail implements the 5% of sendmail that I need, plus 5% extra which no other implementation offers. The approach has somewhat worked, but has some issues.https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2023/03/30/thoughts-on-sendmail-in-2023/Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2023/03/30/thoughts-on-sendmail-in-2023/Sendmail is a classic mail transfer agent (MTA) in the world of Unix-like systems. It’s design is simple, and worked well for many setups for decades. For many scenarios it still works. For others, it does not. Sendmail as a system-wide tool[permalink] Sendmail is typically set up by a system administrator and configured to relay emails from any local user via some administrator-defined mechanism. This doesn’t play well with typical multi-users systems as we see today, especially if they each have their own different mailbox providers and accounts.