Ben Collver wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 02:02:38PM -0400, Matthew Gracie wrote:
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>>Does Mutt still require the user to run an MTA on their machine to send
>>mail? Considering that I'm going to be using this at conferences and the
>>like, I don't know that port 25 will always be open for me to freely use
>>like that.
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>With pkgsrc/mail/msmtp, mutt does not need you to configure an MTA on
>your machine to send mail.
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>I don't understand how they can block port 25 on your local machine.
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>Ben
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I'm not saying that port 25 incoming would be blocked on my local
machine. Rather, I have seen ISP configured so as to block port 25
traffic outward from an end user to anything _except_ the ISP's
sanctioned mail server. This is pretty common in some home broadband
networks as an anti-spam measure, to keep compromised hosts from sending
mail.

Anyway, that's my concern about that. But if I can use SMTPAUTH to send
the mail through the server here at work, that's great. I was just a
little concerned when I read the docs on the Mutt web page.

--Matt--

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