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Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?



On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:51:12PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:35:29AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > IMHO using any local mailer is a bad idea on a desktop system. You send
> > off the mail, your MUA says "Sent", you power down or just close the
> > laptop, and, if your smarthost happens to be a bit slow today, the mail
> > sits there indefinitely.

> Unless it is something like SSMTP...

> SSMTP has no queue and sends E-Mail immediately to a smarthost.

And is a much better choice than expecting every user to locally
configure smtp settings in the MUA.  Lack of direct-SMTP support in mutt
is a good thing.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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