On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > Moshe Kaminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So my question is what is it that mozilla can do and mutt doesn't? > > I don't use either, but I suspect they have basically the same > functionality plus different bells and whistles. Your confusion is on > a different level. Grossly simplifying, dealing with email consists of > two things (assuming the rest of the networking - domain name > resolution, routing, and the likes - is somehow taken care of): the > user side, i.e. some application that allows the user to specify where > it gets the mail from and where it sends the mail to, read and compose > emails, etc. Such applications are called Mail User Agents, or > MUAs. Examples are Mozilla, KMail, mutt, pine, Evolution, Outlook, etc. > The other side is transfer, all the stuff that Ira told you about and > more. That is handled by mail server software such as sendmail, > postfix, qmail, etc., and those programs are sometimes called MTA - > Mail Trasport Agents.
Two points: * mutt doesn't do smtp . Its authors deem it to be an MUA and not an MTA, and thus it doesn't have this smtp code. Thus you do need an MTA. Read mutt's FAQ. * One feature I now find sorely missing in mozilla and kmail, that both pine and mutt have: pine and mutt look up the local users database (passwd nss) to expand a name if it is not in their aliases. kmail and mozilla don't seem to have this ability (maybe they scan /etc/passwd, but certainly not NIS) -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
