Tymestream Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 I have recently found out that a lot of my emails have not been getting to their intended targets. I recently had turned off my MTA (Postfix). I had never thought about it before because I thought that the email client took care of the SMTP. Which way does this really work? Can SMTP emails be sent with no MTA running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 (edited) I found this really helpful link: here in short, you need an MTA to send mail, since SMTP is just a protocol...the program which makes the connection is the MTA agent/daemon. Email clients are well, just clients, and without a server (the MTA) clients are useless. HTH Edited October 17, 2004 by arthur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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