On 2012-08-05 11:04:03 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > This isn't my comment... Maybe you do not know as much about e-mail > as you think you do. =8^) I'm teasing here, but there's a > pont here: knowing the basics of how STMP works is really irrelevant > to the average user, and is not really helpful in any way to make > them better at reading and writing e-mail -- which, let's be clear, is > what their goal is. That is why people use Mutt... NOT so that they > can learn about obscure networking protocols. All they need to know > is how to configure their e-mail client to talk to their ISP's mail > gateway.
But when the ISP's mail gateway is down or is blacklisted because of spammers, the users wouldn't know what to do. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
