On 14/07/00 17:24 +0530, Rajeev Jha spewed into the LI bitstream:
>and on server is the receiver-smtp running. now when i use netscape
>messenger on my win -box where is the sender smtp ? is it rolled into
>the messenger itself ? on linux boxes i believe there should be one smtp
>process listening on port 25 for sending smtp requests to the server
>when using plain 'mail' program. could be wrong , very limited knowledge
If you have sendmail running in daemon mode then fine - there's your local
smtp. If not, netscape and other interactive mailers can talk to remote
smtp servers ...
Like I don't have smtp on my nt workstation but I can telnet to port 25
(the smtp port) of my mailserver and send out mail :)
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