Re: using non-local smtp server?

[Abhijit Menon-Sen]

On 2001-03-12 13:58:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Now I'm confused.. mutt talks to the MTA via SMTP, right?

mutt doesn't talk to an MTA at all. It runs "/usr/lib/sendmail -t -ba"
(or an equivalent), and feeds it the complete message (header and body)
on stdin. The subsequent stages of delivery are performed by the MTA in
whatever way it sees fit, independently of mutt (and many other MUAs).

If you don't want to configure your local mail subsystem properly, you
could use nullmailer or make /usr/lib/sendmail be a perl one-liner which
uses Net::SMTP to forward the mail to your relay. mutt doesn't care.

- ams