On Saturday 09 October 2004 18:48, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Christian Surchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.09.1730 +0200]: > > I think it's not a right comparison, nullmail is an MTA. and > > AFAIK, msmtp is not an MTA: > > it transports mail to the next relay, right? > nullmailer is a "simple relay-only mail transport agent." > > what's the difference?
the diff is that with msmtp you wont have a mta, but a mua. > oh well, msmtp has TLS and SASL and IPv6, so I guess it is more > featureful than nullmailer... and much more ... also has msmtpqueue which is a pair of very simple shell scripts that allows you to "queue" mails and send them all at a later time (useful for dialup connections: write your mails offline and send them when you are online). > > I think that msmtp simply will take the place of sendmail binary > > called by mutt. > > oh, and calling it a plugin make is sounds so much better. are these > guys marketing specialists or software hackers? they just quoted it .... "SMTP plugin" , but I guess 'a mua backend' will be more correct in that case. > did you know about lpr? it's the mutt print plugin which may also > work with other programmes. having msmtp officially packaged is a good thing imho. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <keyserver.bu.edu ; pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB
