> The only wrong thing about this picture is the SMTP Service before "Outgoing".

Ok, thank you Matthieu.

> As weird as it is, the delivery of messages to a remote server is done by a 
> Mailet called RemoteDelivery and it's not handled by the SMTP Service.
> As far as I know, a lot of people are actually forking this Mailet because 
> they want specific behaviors for delivery so I think this design makes sense.

Ok sure, but doesn’t that Mailet have to “speak” SMTP? I.e., doesn’t it 
effectively become an SMTP client, that opens a session with a remote SMTP 
server?

Or am I again misunderstanding something fundamental about how SMTP works?


Cheers,
=David

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