Another difference in my situation is that I'm relaying mail to a pop server on our main network, rather than using my own mail system to send mail out to the internet.
Joel Frank Slootweg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joel J. Adamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> > OP wrote: >> >> > Apparently emacs doesn't have a mail-transport-agent: >> >> Yes, it does: sendmail.el; correct me if this does not serve as a user >> MTA. It works on my machine without using sendmail, procmail, >> postfix, fetchmail... > > I don't know the first thing about gnus, emacs, sendmail.el, etc., but > such a "user MTA" is often referred to as a MSA (Mail/Message > *Submission* Agent), i.e. the component which only *submits* a mail > message to a 'mail server' (MTA), which actually *sends* (transfers) the > message (to a remote mail-server/MTA). -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109 _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
