* Robert Holtzman <[email protected]> [2009-07-30 23:37]: > I'm running mutt 1.5.17+20080114. Everything I read online says mutt > is not an MTA but "mutt -v" shows "+USE_SMTP". Is this > contradictory? Can someone further my education? > > Thanks.
As the manual informs: 5. SMTP Support Besides supporting traditional mail delivery through a sendmail-compatible program, Mutt supports delivery through SMTP if it was configured and built with --enable-smtp. If the configuration variable $smtp_url is set, Mutt will contact the given SMTP server to deliver messages; if it is unset, Mutt will use the program specified by $sendmail. For details on the URL syntax, please see Section 1.2, “URL Syntax”. The built-in SMTP support supports encryption (the smtps protocol using SSL or TLS) as well as SMTP authentication using SASL. The authentication mechanisms for SASL are specified in $smtp_authenticators defaulting to an empty list which makes Mutt try all available methods from most-secure to least-secure. HTH Stefan
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