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

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no>]

* Morgon Kanter 

| This one time, at band camp, Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> wrote:
| > I agree.  The main functionality of Mutt is to read *and* send mail.
| > Being able to only read mail archives is not the main functionality
| > but a backup functionality.  To be able to provide the main
| > functionality, an MTA is required, hence a dependency.
| 
| What if the MTA is on a different host? Can't mutt speak SMTP?

Not without a patch, which afaik, isn't in the mutt in Debian.

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