Re: [Nmh-workers] external MTA (was: nmh @ gsoc?)

[Michael Richardson]

>>>>> "markus" == markus schnalke <address@hidden> writes:
    markus> Use a simple forwarding MTA (like nullmailer or ssmtp)
    markus> instead.

  okay. That would work for me.
  The work would still be there to essentially:
      a) rip out everything else.
      b) adjust packages such that nullmailer/ssmtp is a dependancy.
      c) provide an interface to collect the user's various
         relay authentication tokens and configure said mailer.

    markus> For the user, shipping an own forwarder is not much different than
    markus> providing a good tutorial on how to use an external program for the
    markus> job. And if it is a problem, then this user is hardly a user of nmh
    markus> anyway.

  nmh is the swiss-army knife of mail user agents.

  We have several graphical MUAs that sit on top of it, and I'd like to
see more of them, not fewer.  I do not want thunderbird and all the like
to have to reinvent everything.

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