On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 11:51:55PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> Raju K V [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > Suppose my machine does not have smtp capabilities? ie it does not have
> > sendmail or any other MTA, can I use another machine as smtp host? I am
> > looking for something equivalent to pine's smtp-server option.
>
> When you have pine doing this, your machine /does/ have SMTP capabilities
> and an MTA installed - Pine. Pine speaks SMTP to the remote host you
> specify to get the message there.
>
> Mutt doesn't believe in wasting developers' time and bloating the code base
> this way. There are plenty of real MTAs out there, get one of them.
It doesn't seem to me that a simple SMTP delivery-only client should
have to involve a great deal of code, and it could certainly be made a
compile-time option.
I see at least two significant advantages to having SMTP delivery
support built directly into the client:
* Many ISPs, as a spam prevention measure, require all mail delivery
to go through their smarthost. Configuring an MTA to use a
smarthost is not always trivial.
* More generally, configuring an MTA when you are not thoroughly
familiar with it can introduce security risks. I don't think it's
a feature if Mutt's design promotes more machines being set up as,
say, open relays, even indirectly.
--
Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb.com lead system admonsterator
and Chief Hacking Officer
