ken wrote: > On 04/19/2007 06:17 PM somebody named Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: > >> Wed, 18 Apr 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >> >>> Joachim Schrod wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I have never used a Linux (or any other Unix system, for that matter) >>>> without a locally configured mail system -- it is a sure disaster >>>> waiting to happen. >>>> >>> Just to make sure to emphasize that point, since you might have >>> misunderstood that in other emails: >>> >>> Configuring a local mail systems means to configure and start a >>> local service that can send email (and deliver email from the local >>> to the local system, which is needed for other system services like >>> cron). Most service implementations (postfix, sendmail) involve a >>> running daemon process or at least a cron job to clean up the mail >>> queue. >>> >> Having some processes now and then sending mail hardly adds up to a >> queue. >> >> >>> That there is a running daemon process does NOT mean that the >>> system is a mail server. Usually, the term "mail server" is only >>> used for systems that accept email from other systems, but not for >>> systems with a configured local mail service. (The technical >>> meaning of "mail server" is actually "mail transfer agent that >>> listens on the SMTP port and accepts inbound messages".) >>> >> There is no need for a running daemon what so ever, just for a >> binary that knows how to receive mail from stdin, and connect to a >> receiving mail server on via TCP port 25, or how to receive mail >> from stdin and send the data to a mailbox. >> >> Theo >> > > Yes. Thank goodness there's at least one person here who understands > the situation. > > I found this in the Mutt Guide, <http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttGuide/Send>: > > 'Many MUAs provide facilities to comunicate directly with a remote > server, so that you don't need to have installed and running a local > server on the sending host. In those cases the mua comunicates directly > with a mail server (using the SMTP/ESMTP protocol), when you specify to > do it (e.g. when you push a button like "send all").' > > > Off to install a mail server on my cell phone.... > > Hmmm... I'd better install one on my Nokia N800 too! ;-)
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