On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:33:35PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: | >Mutt can read mail without an MTA, but cannot send mail without one. | | it does not have to be on the same machine It does in the specific case of mutt. I seem to recall Mutt's developers deciding to specifically /not/ support SMTP and only /usr/bin/sendmail for reasons of minimalism and simplicity. Cameron.