>I have little use for SMTP except to localhost, and I never understood >why /usr/sbin/sendmail for submit wasn't good enough. yeah, in the >olden days of 8Mbyte sun3s, running a local MTA was expensive...
It's one more thing to configure. I just tried this out on my MacOS X system that I'm sending this email from (via exmh, which uses send/post to submit this email via SMTP AUTH to the mail server directly). Apparantly MacOS X ships with Postfix, but it is disabled by default. Some quick Googling leads me to believe that this isn't hard to get running, but setting up nmh was just easier. I believe in my situation (outgoing port 25 is blocked by my ISP so I cannot do final delivery myself, I have to send all email via the submission port to a mail server), I would have to do some extra configuration, and a quick glance at the postfix configuration file tells me all I need to know; it's a LOT more complicated than setting up nmh to do it. So if /usr/sbin/sendmail works for you out of the box, okay, it's probably equivalent to setting up nmh to connect to your SMTP server directly. But that's not true for everybody. Note that I think it's perfectly fine that people choose to use the Sendmail MTA; I just don't think it's the best choice for everyone. --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
