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