On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 06:25:04PM +0200, Bernie wrote:
> Neil wrote:
> >Linux, I just learned, makes life much easier. When you send email, you
> >don't specify an smtp host at all. The smtp client goes out and finds one
> >that is associated with the recipient's domain. I sent a test msg to
> >several different addresses using sendmail, and was amazed to see how
> >quickly and easily it logged onto an appropriate smtp server for each one.
>
> I don't know the technical specifics in how you do that, but in my
> experience this makes it impossible to get mail back when accessing
> majordomo so it isn't such a good sollution. If anyone (Steven?) knows how
> to make this work I would be interested in finding out, and yeah "make this
> work" is for a non-root user of course.
There is no difference between this and "the normal way". When a "normal"
e-mail client wants to send mail it contacts an SMTP (say smtp.yourprov.com)
server, usually at your provider. The SMTP server receives the mail looks at
the headers:
-let me see, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, lets ask provider.com where it wants its
email. Ah, it has to go to mail.provider.com. Hey mail.provider.com, I've got
mail for you.
-Thank you, let's see, ah, this is an e-mail address that I have to take care
of, give it to me.
-Ok here it comes.
-Nice, this belongs to user "user", let's put it in his mailbox.
Now with Linux this is exactly the same, it's just very easy to run a local
SMTP server. So instead of connecting to smtp.yourprov.com your mail client
is configured to connect to localhost and use the smtp server over there.
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