Re: Emacs Manual: Mail sending via SMTP

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Robert,


"Robert J. Chassell" <address@hidden> 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