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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

ken wrote:
> On 04/19/2007 06:17 PM somebody named Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
>   
>> Wed, 18 Apr 2007, by jschrod@xxxxxxx:
>>
>>     
>>> 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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