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On 16-May-2002/23:52 -0400, Paul M Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 08:17:35PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 07:10, dbrett wrote:
>> > What does Pine use for sending email?  
>
>Unlike programs like mutt, Pine does not use a mail transfer agent (MTA)
>like sendmail to send mail. It negotiates its own connection with
>whatever mailserver it's pointed to, and directly sends the mail.

This didn't sound right when I read it, so I quit mutt, stopped sendmail,
fired up pine and sent a message. According to the maillog it was
delivered.

By default, pine calls sendmail directly and pipes in the message. It only
uses SMTP if you set it to do so.


Tony
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