smtp in mutt

[Robert Holtzman]

I'm running mutt 1.5.17+20080114. Everything I read online says mutt is 
not an MTA but "mutt -v" shows "+USE_SMTP". Is this contradictory? Can 
someone further my education?

Thanks.
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