Aaah! Understood. I was wondering about that. sim Michael Hicks wrote: > Simeon Johnston <simeonuj at eetc.com> wrote: > > > > I think ( I may be wrong ) that Netscape doesn't use sendmail. I > > thought it had it's own built in MUA and MTA? Is this correct? > > I think you're right, up to a point. Many mail clients require Sendmail > or some other mail transfer agent to be installed on the local system. > Mail is sent by running the MTA and dumping the mail message to that > process's standard input. Netscape is usually set up to connect to an > SMTP gateway, rather than using the local mail transfer agent. > > It only requires a fairly small amount of extra code to do both (I > suspect), so some mailers can go either way. > > -- > _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Error 103: Dead mouse in > / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ hard drive. > \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) > [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list