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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.