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Re: lynx-dev Lynx - Sound, Mail and Fury!


From: Mike Castle
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Lynx - Sound, Mail and Fury!
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:25:43 -0800

In article <address@hidden>,
Doug Kaufman  <address@hidden> wrote:
>Lynx can send mail to a SMTP server when you activate a "mailto:"; URL.
>The Windows version needs a separate application that forwards the mail
>to the server. This may be "sendmail", "blat", or "blatj", depending on
>how the binary was compiled and what options you specify. 

Lynx uses sendmail on Unix style systems as well.  To the best of my
knowledge (and a quick look at the code), Lynx, rightfully, always uses an
MTA to send mail.  It never handles the SMTP protocol directly.

mrc

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     Mike Castle      address@hidden      www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/
    We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan.  -- Watchmen
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