From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Manual: Mail sending via SMTP Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 17:34:19 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87u1ewlehw.fsf@emacswiki.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045931784 11900 80.91.224.249 (22 Feb 2003 16:36:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 16:36:24 +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 18mcdR-00035d-00 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 17:36:21 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18mcs0-0003lZ-00 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 17:51:24 +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 18mccc-00059S-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:35:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18mcc9-0004mj-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:35:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18mcba-0003sB-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:34:57 -0500 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net ([217.13.230.178] helo=yxa.extundo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18mcbZ-0003rg-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 11:34:26 -0500 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1MGYJXf012259 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Sat, 22 Feb 2003 17:34:20 +0100 Original-To: Alex Schroeder Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.1 0:030222:alex@emacswiki.org:426228ecdb23b22c X-Hashcash: 0:030222:alex@emacswiki.org:426228ecdb23b22c X-Payment: hashcash 1.1 0:030222:emacs-devel@gnu.org:4043b47fdac67952 X-Hashcash: 0:030222:emacs-devel@gnu.org:4043b47fdac67952 In-Reply-To: <87u1ewlehw.fsf@emacswiki.org> (Alex Schroeder's message of "Sat, 22 Feb 2003 12:51:55 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 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:11850 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11850 Alex Schroeder writes: > 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: Good idea, I added it.