Aaah!  Understood.  I was wondering about that.

sim

Michael Hicks wrote:

> Simeon Johnston <simeonuj at eetc.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think ( I may be wrong ) that Netscape doesn't use sendmail.  I
> > thought it had it's own built in MUA and MTA?  Is this correct?
>
> I think you're right, up to a point.  Many mail clients require Sendmail
> or some other mail transfer agent to be installed on the local system.
> Mail is sent by running the MTA and dumping the mail message to that
> process's standard input.  Netscape is usually set up to connect to an
> SMTP gateway, rather than using the local mail transfer agent.
>
> It only requires a fairly small amount of extra code to do both (I
> suspect), so some mailers can go either way.
>
> --
>  _  _  _  _ _  ___    _ _  _  ___ _ _  __   Error 103: Dead mouse in
> / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\  / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__   hard drive.
> \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/  \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __)
> [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]
> _______________________________________________
> tclug-list mailing list
> tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list