From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9112 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: can gnus do this ? Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:58:57 -0400 Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: <87r6on95fy.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <1181134359.795974@vasbyt.isdsl.net> <877iqhz00m.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> <46680bf1$0$40525$dbd41001@news.wanadoo.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181230894 5672 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2007 15:41:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 15:41:34 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 07 17:41:32 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HwK7A-0006ns-6y for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:41:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HwK79-0005oB-NC for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:41:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1181228339 17702 132.183.29.121 (7 Jun 2007 14:58:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 14:58:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:or8x8Nc+bmq9hdKE1E8yjtrQ3ec= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:79296 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:9112 Archived-At: Another difference in my situation is that I'm relaying mail to a pop server on our main network, rather than using my own mail system to send mail out to the internet. Joel Frank Slootweg writes: > Joel J. Adamson 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). -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109