Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:06:51PM +0100, robbie@scot-mur.demon.co.uk wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 12:27:57PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote:
> > It still needs an MTA to send mail :-)
> Not necessarily on the same machine. Imho no mua should bepend on amta,
> just recommend. Dselect will make you install recommends anyway, but
> apt-get doesn't.(I think)
Perhaps you're thinking of netscape, which can deliver mail itself
to remote SMTP servers. Most unix mail programs do not (and should not).
As to making MUAs not require MTAs, I suspect approximately 0.0000001%
of our users would like to do this.
Hamish
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