OT: Modern day equivalent to sendmail?

This is how it's done in our area. From the Sasktel website:

"In the "To" field, enter the 10-digit SaskTel wireless phone snipped-for-privacy@sms.sasktel.com (for example, snipped-for-privacy@sms.sasktel.com)".

You can check if your local provider has a similar sms service.

HTH

A different way of doing the same thing is to give that person a unique email to send to which is routed both to your regular email address and to the cell phone. I have done this with a number of email addresses. In essence instead of being a mailbox, the address is a mailing list which is forwarded to any email addresses you wish.

One example is email from my ISP or financial institutions are routed both to my Eudora email client but also to a Yahoo email address so I have access to it in case my computer crashes or is otherwise compromised.

If you load Perl for windows then NTsendmail may work.

Cheers

Look at this

watch the wrap

Eudora can run from the command line and can spawn additional copies of itself from the command line. For example, try from the CMD prompt:

"C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Eudora\Eudora.exe" mailto:Your_Cell snipped-for-privacy@vtext.com?subject=You_Got_Mail

That should all be on one line. I don't have Eudora running to try it.

There are other command line parameters that can be used, but I can't find the list. This is the best I could find:

sendmail mainly...

you could try mail, nail, mailx, heirloom mailx, thebat!, and sendmail. to name a few.

Rather than writing "watch the wrap", put < and > around the link:

I would put together a few lines of Python script - the built-in SMTP library makes sending emails easy.

Forgot about that - Thanks

Good lead! This works...

C:\Eudora\Eudora.exe C:\Eudora\Messages\test.msg

Where test.msg has all the guts, To:, From:, Subject:, Body

...Jim Thompson

It looks like your newsreader screws up < > links too, by being obsessive about line lengths. Newsreaders should /not/ break such links into multiple lines, even if it means the line length is too long - it's okay if the link wanders off beyond the right-hand margin when you read the post (unlike normal text, which should have limited line length).

So unless you can change Pan's settings to fix this, or you change your newsreader (which would seem a drastic solution), then you are probably going to have to keep adding a "watch the wrap" note to long links.

makes a difference in some software and makes no difference at all in other software.

Some software lets you post long lines, some doesn't, but the software that treats as special and otherwise breaks long lines has one bad effect. every time spmeone posts a broken link one of the users of such sofware will blindly proclaim as the solution regardless of wether it actually helps or not.

potentially pan's source could be changed.

I knew that some of the older text-based unix newsreaders do not support < > links, but I thought most others did. Although it is not (AFAIK) part of any official RFC, it has become a common de-facto standard - and I think it is fair to guess that the substantial majority of Usenet posters use a client that supports it. So unless I know otherwise (and now I do, in the case of Pan), I assume that a random poster's newsclient supports it, and that the poster merely forgot (or was unaware of < > links).

Does slrn work with < > links?

Indeed it could. But it could be a long wait, unless Joe wants to do it himself.

Seems to be reader-dependent. Agent does not wrap any URL contained by , at least outgoing. ...Jim Thompson

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Like i reported before < and > do not always help. The URL wrapped again anyway.

?-)

Slrn places no special meaning on those characters, with or without each line can be any lenght I desire it to be.

when I send it will warn me, I only have to press F to force it.

to my

again

Well i use Agent on this end. So the issue may be subtler still. I normally wrap for easier readability, That may change it.

??-)

The allows some newsreaders (I'm using Thoth) to deduce the correct URL despite the wrap.

In any event, the can only help.

Joe Gwinn

If you are using t-bird as a reader none of this matters. I find if I select the wrapped link I still get a "open in browser" option in the right click menu that works correctly.