On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 10:27:19AM +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> 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.
Thanks to various people on this list, I finally got it clear.
For other users in my position, namely with a machine without a hostname and/or
externally visible IP, my advice is to stay clear of sendmail/qmail and try ssmtp.
thanks,
--Jeff
>
> - ams
