On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 09:14:14PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:57:06AM -0700, Todd Holloway wrote:
> >
> > Can mutt use a MSA (mail submission agent)?
>
> Of course. Now, mutt invokes sendmail -- I see no reason why it shouldn't be
> able to call an MSA instead. You can even specify HOW mutt should call
> sendmail /qmail, whatever)
Probably not. MSA (mail submission agent) refers to RFC2476. It specifies
an interface very similar to SMTP on a different port (587), especially
intented to allow email submission from MUAs e.g. with authentication.
On port 25 you should run a normal SMTP server to receive incoming mails.
On port 587 you may run a submission server with client authentication
enabled to allow relaying for your customers/personell etc.
As mutt does not support SMTP (and support for SMTP is not intended),
it also does not support submission as of RFC2476.
Best regards,
Lutz
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