question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists

[Novembre]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Andrew Berry <andrewberry at 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?