Quoting Fairlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 05:50:35PM -0500, Jeff Taylor blurted:
> > I think this depends on your Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), not the Mail
> > User Agent (MUA). I use Mutt and qmail. I tell qmail where/how to
> > send e-mail. Mutt just dumps it to the SMTP server. I am currently
> > using four different hosts for outgoing mail with my ISP being the
> > default.
>
Actually, I am wrong. First time today ;) Mutt calls a program, not
an SMTP server. In /usr/local/etc/Muttrc there is a
# set sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi"
# set sendmail_wait=0
I suspect these are the defaults. I am using qmail's sendmail
wrapper. I might be able to fiddle with the settings and use
qmail-inject or mailsubj directly. There may be some minimalist MTA
that just dumps it to the SMTP server or your choice.
Jeff
> I took it to mean he wants to have -no- MTA at all and just redirect all
> outbound mail to another server's MTA (a-la Outlook, Netscape, etc). I can
> see why this might be desirable, however a look through the manual left me
> clueless as to how to accomplish it. I don't think the feature exists. If
> it -does- exist, the sendmail variable section in the manual should be
> changed to crossreference to it, IMHO. :)
>
> The answer seems to be a minimalistic need to have your own local MTA, set
> the sendmail variable correctly for it, and configure your MTA to use
> whatever host as a "smart relay".
>
> mark->
>
