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Re: Emacs Manual: Mail sending via SMTP
From: |
Benjamin Riefenstahl |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Manual: Mail sending via SMTP |
Date: |
22 Feb 2003 15:43:13 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Hi Robert,
"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?
Emacs can not act as a receiving MTA (it is not a mail server). But
the Emacs mail clients (at least some of them) do provide the ability
to actively query a non-local MTA (an MTA on a mail server) via the
POP or IMAP protocols. So you don't need a *local* MTA for receiving
mail.
Hope this helps, benny