On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 12:19:01PM -0500, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
>
> This would assume that the local machine has an MTA, and that it's
> called 'sendmail' and that it's prepared to perform non-local delivery
> of messages. On some boxes I used, this isn't the case; I have nmh
> open a TCP connection to another host's MTA that listens on port 25.
> You don't have to have a local SMTP server listening on port 25; you
> can use another one with SMTP delivery.
>
> I think that if you change the default, then this can no longer be
> done simply by changing mts.conf. I run FreeBSD and use the nmh port,
> and I think this proposed change would cause a worse "bug."
>
> louie
I think you misunderstood the proposal: only the default compilation would
be changed with setting the appropriate option to configure. If you have a
broken setup (or no MTA, in your case), then you can always recompile nmh to
suit your needs.
Of course, there could be an argument about which default serves more
people. I have no insight: are there more boxes setup with nmh but without
MTA?
I tend to think that there are more than one MUAs on each box, and instead
of configuring each separately to use an smtp server, it may be just easier
to set up an MTA on the box.
Mate
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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
