Sendmail Suite

Sendmail is a Frontier suite which send mail. It has many advantages over the tcp.sendmail in standard frontier, notably

• A queue mechanism, so that error recovery is possible.
• Correct handling of emails with extended characters in the mail text
• Handles attachments correctly.
• Can be set up to be the default mail handler for Manila.
• Able to authenticate itself to mail servers using CRAM-MD5 and LOGIN authentication
• CGI interface to monitor the queue.

The queue is implemented as a separate root, the sendmailqueue.root, which will contain a table of queues (tables). Each queue is named after an SMTP server. The suite tries to send email from each queue periodically, with an interval that you determine from the suite menu.

Sendmail is a descendant of a Frontier suite written by Kevin Cheval in 1996. I took it over in 1998 and added improved mime and extended character set handling and have been supporting and extending it ever since.