Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA
Hi
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 10:09:51PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 08:06:51PM +0100, robbie@scot-mur.demon.co.uk wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 12:27:57PM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote:
> > > It still needs an MTA to send mail :-)
> > Not necessarily on the same machine. Imho no mua should bepend on amta,
> > just recommend. Dselect will make you install recommends anyway, but
> > apt-get doesn't.(I think)
>
> Perhaps you're thinking of netscape, which can deliver mail itself
> to remote SMTP servers. Most unix mail programs do not (and should not).
Yes, for some reason I thought mutt did smtp. Sorry.
> As to making MUAs not require MTAs, I suspect approximately 0.0000001%
> of our users would like to do this.
I agree.
>
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Rob Murray
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