On 2012-08-05 21:55:46 -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 04:12:48AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > By switching the MTA config to direct (e.g. by answering the same > > questions as above), the user won't need to call his ISP, in > > particular if this is at night or if the ISP's gateway is blacklisted > > (sometimes for a wrong reason). > > Maybe where you live, but on most major providers' networks in North > America, outgoing SMTP is blocked, as I have said repeatedly in this > thread. It's not an option for us unless we buy business class > service or find some local niche provider.
Anyway, whether the ISP allows direct SMTP access (in France, there's the choice) or not, a MTA (or the package from the OS distribution) should be easy to configure for the most common uses; this is the case in Debian, with direct access or via a gateway. Thus there shouldn't be a real need to have the feature in the MUA, except if one wants to choose the config from a send-hook or something similar. Even on the Nokia N900, where there's no MTA installed by default, the usual suggestion was to use msmtp (though I've never tried). -- 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)
