Re: [PLUG] verizon dsl send mail

["Michael C. Toren" <mct@toren.net>]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:22:01AM -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> Thanks, Michael.  You and Rebecca have done a good job of explaining why
> MUAs, like mutt, need an external local MTA.  I am confused however by
> your references, above, to a "smart host".

There are essentially two things an MTA can do with a message that isn't
going to be locally delivered:  It can either lookup the MX hosts for the
destination address and contact those hosts directly, or it can send the
messages to another SMTP server -- a smarthost -- which will do the work
of looking up the MX hosts, and periodically retry contacting MX hosts
that initially timeout.  A smarthost is really just an SMTP server that
allows your MTA to relay though it, and is typically run by your ISP.

HTH,
-mct

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