tompoe <Friday, March 02, 2001 9:23 AM> :
> So, if someone could describe briefly just what happens when I
> enter "y" to send message? I need to track the message,
mutt hands off to sendmail (which queues the mail). then when you connect
to your isp and give a /usr/sbin/sendmail -q then the mail is sent to your
isp smtp server for delivery.
If you are directly connected (dsl, cable etc), mutt sends to sendmail,
which sends the mail to the other guy's mailserver.
> and that's the sum total of my [and I use this term loosely :) ]
> knowledge about this stuff.
Phil Pennock, on the exim users list, has started creating a "mail newbie"
faq (to deal with newbie questions that pop up on every list - and may / may
not have anything to do with the mail server itself -
<http://www.globnix.org/mail-intro.txt> for more.
-s
