['Invalid' group alt.comp.software.newsreaders deleted] 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). The confusion often comes from 1) the *name* 'sendmail' or/and 2) the fact that sendmail(1M) *can* do *both*, i.e. MSA and MTA, but doesn't *have* to do both. HTH. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
