From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9121 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: can gnus do this ? Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:16:27 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87vedzkues.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> 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 1181298527 8451 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2007 10:28:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:28:47 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 08 12:28:44 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 1Hwbi0-0000TU-Gg for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:28:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hwbi0-0004Nh-2j for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:28:44 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newscon04.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!news.astraweb.com!border2.newsrouter.astraweb.com!sn-xt-sjc-05!sn-xt-sjc-06!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VEF61ixLXxp2R87Lb+P1yRA9SJM= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 37 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:79302 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:28:38 -0400 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:9121 Archived-At: Frank Slootweg writes: > ['Invalid' group alt.comp.software.newsreaders deleted] > > 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). > > 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 -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au