From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Riefenstahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Manual: Mail sending via SMTP Date: 22 Feb 2003 15:43:13 +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 1045925109 19543 80.91.224.249 (22 Feb 2003 14:45:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:09 +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 18matk-00054n-00 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 15:45:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18mb8H-0002m4-00 for ; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 16:00:05 +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 18matM-0001gj-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 09:44:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18mat1-0001c4-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 09:44:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18masV-0001CI-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 09:44:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [193.28.100.167] (helo=mail.epost.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18masV-00019y-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 09:43:47 -0500 Original-Received: from cicero.benny.turtle-trading.net.epost.de (193.99.153.6) by mail.epost.de (6.7.015) id 3E5554ED0001FD1E; Sat, 22 Feb 2003 15:43:13 +0100 Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-cc: jas@extundo.com 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:11849 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11849 Hi Robert, "Robert J. Chassell" 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