Re: can gnus do this ?

[Joel J. Adamson]

Another difference in my situation is that I'm relaying mail to a pop
server on our main network, rather than using my own mail system to
send mail out to the internet.

Joel

Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> writes:

> Joel J. Adamson <jadamson@partners.org> wrote:
>> news@absamail.co.za writes:
>> 
>> > OP wrote:
>> 
>> > Apparently emacs doesn't have a mail-transport-agent:
>> 
>> Yes, it does: sendmail.el; correct me if this does not serve as a user
>> MTA.  It works on my machine without using sendmail, procmail,
>> postfix, fetchmail...
>
>   I don't know the first thing about gnus, emacs, sendmail.el, etc., but
> such a "user MTA" is often referred to as a MSA (Mail/Message
> *Submission* Agent), i.e. the component which only *submits* a mail
> message to a 'mail server' (MTA), which actually *sends* (transfers) the
> message (to a remote mail-server/MTA).

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Joel J. Adamson
Biostatistician
Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA  02114
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