[TriLUG] Fwd: mail relay through trilug.org?
Tanner Lovelace
clubjuggler at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 12:42:23 EDT 2007
On 7/10/07, Matt Nash <mattnash at intrex.net> wrote:
> Scott Lambdin wrote:
> > I think clients and servers are not distinguishable in smtp.
> Any mail client can perform both functions, but at a given moment on a
> given connection, each is either one or the other.
No. Any mail client acts only as a client. Example: Thunderbird.
Thunderbird and other mail clients do *not* use SMTP to receive
mail. They use POP or IMAP or read the files directly, but all
of that has nothing to do with SMTP.
Cheers,
Tanner
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