E-mail - clients & transporters

[Steve Holmes]

When I mentioned editing source, I mean the source for the configuration
file which is in M4 macro.  That is much easier than editing the
sendmail.cf file directly.  The README inside the sendmail distribution
describes this fairly well.

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> The disadvantage of using pine to send and receive mail directly to and
> from your ISP is that you need to be online to do stuff.  You may as well
> telnet or SSH into their host and use pine there.  If you set up your own
> SMTP server properly, you can do neat stuff like read and write mail while
> offline (like I am doing now), and have linux send your mail off when you
> next log into your ISP.
> 
> MTA's are complex due to all the stuff they can and should be able to do,
> which is why worked examples are a good way to start with these things.  I
> use exim so I can't help with sendmail.  However, I doubt that you need to
> actually edit source code to configure sendmail to send to a smarthost.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
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