Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?
* Emile van Bergen <emile-deb@evbergen.xs4all.nl> [030806 17:04]:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:03:07PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> > * 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).
> > Perhaps we disagree what MTA means. I consider for example ssmpt to be a
> > MTA.
>
> So netscape and pine, both of which contain an SMTP /client/, are MTAs??
They have something like an integrated MTA. All I miss there is
to accept a mail in the used form when invoked as /usr/{sbin,lib}/sendmail.
(which is really not that much compared to smtp handling)
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
--
Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing
an editor and a MTA.
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