Re: can gnus do this ?

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> writes:

> ['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.

Correct. The mail submission agent is also sometimes called the MUA - mail user
agent. 

I've found the smtp.el package in emacs 22 is pretty good as well. I've also
seen references to other elisp packages that support things like usinig an SMTP
server that requires authentication etc. 

Tim


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