On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:48:53PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the replies. I believe that my confusion was founded in > the idea that an MTA both sends and receives mail. The ssmtp package > is an appropriate provider for the sendmail portion of the > mail-transport-agent without the corresponding burden of a local mail > receiver.
ObPedant: Actually, the job you're describing isn't properly that of an MTA, rather an MSA: Mail Submission Agent. But in Debian terms they are unified. There are actually three jobs: MSA, MTA, MDA, for submission, transmission, and delivery. Sendmail and exim are all three of these (or, can be configured to be all three). ssmtp is, I believe, just an MSA. Jules
