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[ale] sendmail configuration



2011/1/12 Bj?rn Gustafsson <bg-ale at bjorng.net>:
> I didn't know there were MAPI clients for Linux. ?Since MAPI is a
> client-side protocol/API, it wouldn't involve sendmail as a relay at
> all but would talk directly to the target mail server.

There are outlook clones that run on linux.  They emulate the MAPI
protocol AIUI.

> By contrast, if you are considering using a standard Linux mail
> client, it must eventually use SMTP to deliver the message to a remote
> server. ?I don't think even Exchange can run completely without SMTP
> in this day and age, so that shouldn't be an issue.

Exchange includes a SMTP server.  How else could it receive Internet email.

Greg