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Date:      Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:39:06 -0500
From:      Novembre <novembre@gmail.com>
To:        "Andrew Berry" <andrewberry@sentex.net>
Cc:        Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@embarqmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists
Message-ID:  <3b47caa90806121139n76981b47uef6d710e82ea834d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <A86AEFD1-7F15-4667-9189-B434B448D3D7@sentex.net>
References:  <3b47caa90806082022g65e88d97q3fa3d99d3b790ddc@mail.gmail.com> <20080609064047.b74f4b95.bsd-unix@embarqmail.com> <3b47caa90806092110o4f409778u29aa15be92c0959e@mail.gmail.com> <A86AEFD1-7F15-4667-9189-B434B448D3D7@sentex.net>

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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Andrew Berry <andrewberry@sentex.net>
wrote:

> On 10-Jun-08, at 12:10 AM, Novembre wrote:
>
>  So to be more specific, how can I answer to a post from a mailing list
>> from
>> within my, e.g., GMail or Yahoo! mailboxes?
>>
>
> You might be able to use telnet to open a connection to Google's SMTP
> servers, and paste the entire message, headers included, into the
> transmission. You'd have to know how to manually use SMTP and hope that
> Google accepts email from your machine. You could also look into writing a
> script in (Perl or Python would be good) to allow you to do it yourself, so
> you would have control over most of the headers.
>
> --Andrew




I tried to telnet to smtp.gmail.com, but it didn't work. Is that what you
meant?



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