From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Schroeder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Manual: Mail sending via SMTP Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 12:51:55 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87u1ewlehw.fsf@emacswiki.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045915712 24295 80.91.224.249 (22 Feb 2003 12:08:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 12:08:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18mYSD-0006Jd-00 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 13:08:29 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18mYgg-0001JW-00 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 13:23:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18mYOp-0005JW-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 07:04:59 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18mYOG-0005Hk-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 07:04:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18mYNi-00056W-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 07:04:21 -0500 Original-Received: from isp247n.hispeed.ch ([62.2.95.247] helo=smtp.hispeed.ch) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18mYDH-0003VH-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 06:53:03 -0500 Original-Received: from confusibombus (dclient217-162-232-232.hispeed.ch [217.162.232.232])h1MBpuhS013379; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 12:51:57 +0100 Original-Received: from alex by confusibombus with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18mYCC-0000EP-00; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 12:51:56 +0100 Original-To: Simon Josefsson Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAGFBMVEXw+PtuTDOytLEoIB6 pbUvlw4TKgkTjfmqCdwRTAAACjUlEQVR42l2TQXPiMAyFXYbsXYnJmZg4d+Ns7zZqzuDBuScN/gv 9+/tsplt2dWHQN096khUhXqMae6XS5lal/smL/RlgYqn+A/qt9lBw+x+oOmstsdq86ry4/uT3jc0 hWSnSIv4lu2ceRHe1FtWP4huMPdHHS6k3+x3UjPoFnKwheqrMGl5MXaxPiSmDWoWXHo2JEWNnjV/ vIv6AOmbisq/1JuK3pLIPgDhkSetPApKqGKjMtcokAYyPk4gApVHVxhIDao368myezVWHbVpDSqm AJjevwpqLtY1pE2FVDYAtSwofGSDZ5s6ysUZZVNmpQWc+kD3ckZQXK4MVKuJVii0982PGTjK4AyC KoLrGeJ3TxulixxtKKRUK+AWr1Ywhh4urT0ZEdQyotNOpTLfGkBzVn6OIR60B7vI9hoXIx3lzXF9 GsTuqPGRHv2OcHSUIWq6bM1wdM1iaQ640PYbNTZu3ZxHQAV25UXFm4gRbvCRbi50TVQzBmV5vX19 OJmZueoB9u1P6uqP3TcMOFMxkFuvFp/EYYqYaY+fpEjuixSq89AS38zbwCltoMeF4Pguor9jv3PO kQ8IxMJG8GAD0qTiorVgqeZKNGUQ+ieSDlywXytkCxh6AWr3eJMAdOUsSwJ57gWfTUXdwSsEhj1/ 7BNhbPC41swtbLoNyDjcK8BFXTR9q4IDOEnMbsrUX5PwgA9VRbQDME+6hycB0q3vfEa0qFZC2/C1 4KGh19T6bbPO1YZJ81QrATEnfX4DLH0/vhUM/fYPcpLmARS7WADDVve8MyeTmpNbFb2sPwFAcYjg ZLfpRqV46TkphI4zm+XvB5ktarvkAu7F3ABoAh4j/5NUzPHcFaBXzRb6Ec38ACe7F/cztQQAAAAA ASUVORK5CYII= In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Sat, 22 Feb 2003 01:21:30 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.2.92 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11844 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11844 Simon Josefsson 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.