From: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
Subject: Re: How to send a mail using smtp?
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:18:50 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873by1bz4l.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87652xdh4r.fsf@enki.rimspace.net
On 20 Dec 2004, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> On 20 Dec 2004, Tim McNamara wrote:
>> Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> writes:
>>
>>> On 19 Dec 2004, Jack@mail.org wrote:
>>>> Can you tell me how to config my emacs to send mail by using smtp?
>>>
>>> That isn't generally the best plan, since using the local sendmail will
>>> (usually) still put things in the queue even if the server is down.
>>
>> Only on Unix systems with a functioning sendmail. Since Emacs runs
>> on all platforms, there are many users without sendmail. I use OS X
>> which has sendmail turned off by default, for example, and I don't
>> miss it in the slightest.
>
> IIRC, Emacs still provides a local MTA, though. I confess: I used
> 'sendmail' as a shorthand for "a local MTA", and use Postfix myself.
Ack. That should read "IIRC, **MacOS-X** still provides a local MTA"
Daniel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-20 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-19 9:11 How to send a mail using smtp? Jack
2004-12-19 12:29 ` Daniel Pittman
2004-12-19 13:08 ` D P Schreber
2004-12-19 13:43 ` Jack
2004-12-19 14:43 ` D P Schreber
2004-12-20 13:25 ` Jianbo Zhu
2004-12-20 22:02 ` Duane Winner
2004-12-21 6:50 ` Bob Babcock
2004-12-21 15:26 ` Duane Winner
2004-12-21 18:51 ` How to send a mail using smtp? - solved! (but need help with "Mail From:") Duane Winner
2004-12-21 19:12 ` Tim McNamara
2004-12-21 19:28 ` Bob Babcock
2004-12-21 22:48 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-12-22 4:25 ` Bob Babcock
2004-12-22 17:58 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.7260.1103461994.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-12-19 16:09 ` How to send a mail using smtp? Tim McNamara
2004-12-19 17:21 ` D P Schreber
2004-12-19 23:04 ` Daniel Pittman
2004-12-20 0:18 ` Daniel Pittman [this message]
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