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

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

* Steve Lamb 

|     How many local users are you going to have on a laptop whose correct SMTP
| server changes as a function of their location?

Usually: one, I guess.

|     Oddly enough I only have one program for that now.  Sylpheed-Claws. 
| Fortunately it can do something that most SMTP servers can't without some
| rather painful configuration: send mail through different SMTP servers based
| on the account from which the mail was sent.

Why do you want to do that?

| Hell, if you want to get technical about it I could do that without
| an MTA easily enough.  Tell them to use "mail" as the smtp server,
| edit resolv.conf and have "mail" resolve to whatever server they
| need to send to.

Then you'd have to restart the program each time you change
resolv.conf due to a stupidity in glibc.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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