Carl Johan Madestrand [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> I think i didnt explain myself pretty well in my last mail.
> What i really meant, is there any way to specify my ISP's mail server
> in mutt as an outgoing SMTP server, as i can do in other mail clients
> like Netscape for example?
I think you're just not putting 2 and 2 together to understand our answers
in light of your question. When you set an SMTP server in Netscape Mail,
what do you think that does? The mail can't just magically move from your
machine to the other. Netscape mail has to make a connection with that
server and transfer the mail to it, with the instruction to send it on.
That is, it has to act as an MTA. Mutt leaves this responsibility to
another application of your choosing, which is a much better way of doing
things. It means the Mutt developers can worry about writing a mail user
agent, not a mail transfer agent -- they can ignore the details of
transferring mail and let the people who want to write an MTA worry about
them. You can choose the MTA you like and keep it even if you change MUAs,
and vice versa. There isn't extra MTA code in Mutt that users who still
had a local sendmail would just find bloat. Etc, etc, etc.
If you *only* want to send mail through your ISP's SMTP server, get sSMTP.
It does exactly that, and nothing else.
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