Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?
Hi,
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:36:36PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
> * Bernhard R. Link [Wed, Aug 06 2003, 03:03:07PM]:
> > * Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org> [030806 13:43]:
> > > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 13:10:03 +0200
> > > "Bernhard R. Link" <blink@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> > > > If mutt spoke SMTP, it would be a MTA itself. (Perhaps still missing
> > > > the proper interface to link /usr/lib/sendmail to mutt, but that would
> > > > be the lesser part).
> > >
> > > No, it would not. It would be using another method of accessing an MTA.
> > > Just because Mozilla speaks HTTP, HTTPS and FTP doesn't make it a web server,
> > > a secure web server and an ftp server.
> >
> > Perhaps we disagree what MTA means. I consider for example ssmpt to be a
> > MTA. (And judging from the package-description, it's maintainer seems
> > to believe the same). In other words I demand beeing able so send a mail
> > somewhere. (Which includes speaking SMTP, if one wants to reach
> > arbitrary hosts).
>
> But your statement was wrong, please reread it. MTA term (for my judgement)
> implies some program which emulates the sendmail command to send Email
> (and mutt does not, AFAIK, even if it can accept mail body from stdin)
> to other hosts and to local users, while the local part of the transport
> may also be implemented on the smarthost, eg. sharing /var/mail
> directory and the user database some other system which also acts as the
> ssmtp's smarthost.
You're right, it /is/ a hot day. Sorry. I agree with your definition.
Cheers,
Emile.
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