Re: [PLUG] verizon dsl send mail

[Rebecca Ore <rebecca.ore@verizon.net>]

On Wednesday, June 23, 2004, at 09:04 PM, Art Alexion wrote:

> I'm confused as to why this has to be so complicated -- and 
> consequently problem plagued.  I was always under the impression that 
> a local MTA, like sendmail or postfix (or exim) was an *alternative* 
> to using your ISP's SMTP server.  I have never tried to use both 
> concurrently.  My sendmail configuration knows nothing about the ISP's 
> SMTP server, and I bypass sendmail when I use the server (which is my 
> default setup).  Why bother with a local MTA if you are using the 
> ISP's server for outgoing mail?

Depends a lot on which mail program you use.

You *can* send direct MX (or could a while back) through the DSL 
connection, but a lot of people block direct MX from DSL IP space.  
Alternatively, you can send mail through a program that has a routine 
set up to talk to the mail server (Evolution, I think, for RedHat 9, 
Netscape and kin, some other programs, Gnus with smtp auth, etc.)

I was using Mutt which doesn't (or didn't) appear to do its own MTA, so 
needed sendmail.  My news reader programs also needed something to hand 
off mail properly (slrn doesn't have an internal mechanism for this; 
Gnus does).

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