Marius Gedminas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I mean -- both Mutt and fetchmail require an MTA[1], but fetchmail uses
> SMTP to access it (IIRC to avoid problems with different command line
> arguments for different MTAs etc.). Mutt also needs an MTA, but it goes
> with the command line solution.
> [1] It can be argued, that fetchmail needs an MDA, not an MTA... but the
> thing listening on port 25 is usually an MTA.
So don't use fetchmail. My own 'getmail' does it's delivery directly into
Maildirs or mbox files.
> It's not that I advocate adding SMTP support to Mutt [2], but I just
> wonder, why two programs following the same Unix philosophy (do one
> thing well) choose so different solutions [3] for so similair tasks --
> handing an email to an MTA.
Because fetchmail is a good implementation of a broken design.
Charles
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