Re: can gnus do this ?

[Frank Slootweg]

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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).

  The confusion often comes from 1) the *name* 'sendmail' or/and 2) the
fact that sendmail(1M) *can* do *both*, i.e. MSA and MTA, but doesn't
*have* to do both.

  HTH.