From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: can gnus do this ?
Date: 07 Jun 2007 13:45:21 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46680bf1$0$40525$dbd41001@news.wanadoo.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877iqhz00m.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu>
['Invalid' group alt.comp.software.newsreaders deleted]
Joel J. Adamson <jadamson@partners.org> wrote:
> news@absamail.co.za writes:
>
> > OP wrote:
>
> > Apparently emacs doesn't have a mail-transport-agent:
>
> Yes, it does: sendmail.el; correct me if this does not serve as a user
> MTA. It works on my machine without using sendmail, procmail,
> postfix, fetchmail...
I don't know the first thing about gnus, emacs, sendmail.el, etc., but
such a "user MTA" is often referred to as a MSA (Mail/Message
*Submission* Agent), i.e. the component which only *submits* a mail
message to a 'mail server' (MTA), which actually *sends* (transfers) the
message (to a remote mail-server/MTA).
The confusion often comes from 1) the *name* 'sendmail' or/and 2) the
fact that sendmail(1M) *can* do *both*, i.e. MSA and MTA, but doesn't
*have* to do both.
HTH.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-07 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-06 12:52 news
2007-06-06 13:27 ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-06-07 13:45 ` Frank Slootweg [this message]
2007-06-07 14:58 ` Joel J. Adamson
2007-06-08 3:19 ` Tim X
2007-06-08 3:16 ` Tim X
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-06 3:57 news
2007-06-06 8:43 ` Frank Schmitt
2007-06-06 12:48 ` Joel J. Adamson
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