Re: Appropriate? mutt/mailx requires mail-transport-agent
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:48:53PM -0800, elf@florence.buici.com wrote:
> Thanks for the replies. I believe that my confusion was founded in
> the idea that an MTA both sends and receives mail. The ssmtp package
> is an appropriate provider for the sendmail portion of the
> mail-transport-agent without the corresponding burden of a local mail
> receiver.
ObPedant:
Actually, the job you're describing isn't properly that of an MTA,
rather an MSA: Mail Submission Agent. But in Debian terms they are
unified.
There are actually three jobs: MSA, MTA, MDA, for submission,
transmission, and delivery. Sendmail and exim are all three of these
(or, can be configured to be all three). ssmtp is, I believe, just an
MSA.
Jules
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