Re: Emacs Manual: Mail sending via SMTP

[Alex Schroeder]

"Robert J. Chassell" <address@hidden> writes:

> Does Emacs always need to use the non-Emacs MTA on your local system
> to receive email, but provides you with the choice of using either the
> non-Emacs MTA on your local system to send email or of using the MTA
> that come with Emacs?

Yes, because the receiving part of the MTA is the one that receices
SMTP data from the Internet -- it must listen on the SMTP port act
like a server.  Emacs does not do that.

Alex.