On 2012-08-05 11:04:03 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> This isn't my comment...  Maybe you do not know as much about e-mail
> as you think you do.   =8^) I'm teasing here, but there's a
> pont here:   knowing the basics of how STMP works is really irrelevant
> to the average user, and is not really helpful in any way to make
> them better at reading and writing e-mail -- which, let's be clear, is
> what their goal is.  That is why people use Mutt... NOT so that they
> can learn about obscure networking protocols.  All they need to know
> is how to configure their e-mail client to talk to their ISP's mail
> gateway.

But when the ISP's mail gateway is down or is blacklisted because of
spammers, the users wouldn't know what to do.

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