* Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-10 22:48]:
> | and why are you using a perl script
> | for sending when you have mutt?
>
> Because, as y'all keep saying, mutt doesn't send email
> or talk to SMTP servers. It hands messages to sendmail.

correct.  but why not use an MTA?

> I also use a perl script for this, and point mutt at it as
> the sendmail tool. It's especially handy on "disconnected"
> home machines which have net connections
> but not net-aware local mail systems; ..

eh?  disconnected machines with net connections?

> .  you can then just replace the sendmail
> with something that delivers, for example,
> to the host named by your $SMTPSERVER variable.

shades of ssmtp?

Sven

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