On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 07:39:40PM -0400, Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 27 May 2001, Ed Robitaille wrote:
> > Mutt, once you have it tuned is really a great program. It does use POP to
> > pull in mail and it looks like it has hooks that will allow me to possibly
> > weed-out incoming mail. I'll soon know.
> 
>   See if it has a feature to send mail directly to another SMTP server.  If
> so, you can avoid a lot of hassle by simply sending all mail out through your
> ISP.

    No, you cannot.  Mutt does not speak SMTP.  The idea is that that's
what the MTA is for.  Mutt adhere's strongly to the "do one thing and do
it well" philosophy.

    This is an oft-debated and very hot topic, and not one that we need
to discuss here.  There was a lot of discussion no more than 2 weeks ago
on the mutt-dev list.  If you are interested, check there first.

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