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Re: Emacs Manual: Mail sending via SMTP
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Alex Schroeder |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Manual: Mail sending via SMTP |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Feb 2003 12:51:55 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.2.92 |
Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
> Emacs includes a package for sending your mail to a SMTP server and
> have it take care of delivering it to the final destination, rather
> than letting the MTA on your local system take care of it. This can be
> useful if you don't have a MTA set up on your host, or if your machine
> is often disconnected from the Internet.
When I think back to the days when I started using Emacs, then SMTP
and MTA would not have made much sense to me. How about this
introduction:
On the Internet, mail is sent from host to host using the simple
mail transfer protocol (SMTP). When you read and write mail you are
using a mail program that does not use SMTP -- it just reads mails
from files. This is called a mail user agent (MUA). The mail
transfer agent (MTA) is the program that accepts mails via SMTP and
stores them in files. You also need a mail transfer agent when you
send mails. You mail program has to send its mail to a MTA that can
pass it on using SMTP.
Emacs includes a package for sending your mail to a SMTP server and
have it take care of delivering it to the final destination, rather
than letting the MTA on your local system take care of it. ...
Alex.