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Date:      Sat, 23 Sep 2000 10:54:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mitch Collinsworth <mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu>
To:        Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail default run state
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009231051460.8517-100000@khitomer.msc.cornell.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000923145557.G5065@speedy.gsinet>

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On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Gerhard Sittig wrote:

> pine reads from a local (or network fs mounted) mailbox and
> delivers to the sendmail command via stdin.  I would expect MH
> and exmh to do the same.  The same holds for mail(1) and elm.
> And mutt.  And any traditional UNIX mail user agent.
 
exmh is just a tk gui that uses traditional mh (or now nmh) underneath.
mh can be configured to call sendmail or it can talk smtp directly.


> fetchmail delivers by default to a SMTP server.  But it could be
> run as well in MDA mode -- although I never used it this way.

We do.

-Mitch



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