On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 07:53:54PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Subba Rao proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>
> > I have no problem setting up Windows/OS/2 clients to connect to the Qmail
> > server to relay the messages. The problem I am facing now is *nix clients. It
> > looks like the *nix clients (with the exception of Pine) do require a local
> > SMTP server to relay to the main SMTP server. One of the clients, I am using
> > is mutt. It doesn't look like Mutt can send the message directly to the
> > relaying SMTP server.
>
> Use something like masqmail / nullmailer and such on the local unix clients.
The point is, Unix mail clients do not require a local SMTP server per se;
they require a sendmail-like *program* to.. well.. to send mail :)
It's much easier - and less error-prone - for mail clients to know they
have to execute such-and-such program and pass such-and-such parameters
to it, than to make all mail clients actually network-aware SMTP clients
(with all the subtleties of SMTP and any network protocol - response
parsing and such..)
So, just as Suresh suggested, look into some mail delivery agents that
act like the sendmail *program*, not SMTP server, and take care of all
the SMTP talk.
G'luck,
Peter
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