[wplug] Personal mail from sendmail or smtp?

[James O'Kane]

This one time, at band camp, Sal Mangiapane said:

> Are you using POP3 or IMAP to connect?  Those should work to any server.  
> I never heard of an ISP blocking those ports.

The question related to sending email, POP3 and IMAP are protocols for 
retreiving email from the server which stores your mail. These are 
distinct functions.

For the original question, it depends on what you are trying to do. :)  
For the basic question, should I use a local MTA (mail transport agent)
such as sendmail to talk to the ISP's SMTP server, or should I configure
your MUA (mail user agent) to talk to the ISP's server directly, probably 
the biggest difference you'll see is with the local option, it can queue 
outgoing messages and attempt to deliver them for you if the connection is 
down. Not all MUA's will do this.

If you choose to go the sendmail route, the option you want to change it 
DS in your sendmail.cf. However, I would encourage you to look at 
sendmail.mc and learn a bit about generating a sendmail.cf file from those 
macros.

-james