Re: about dma.conf

[Chris Turner <c.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthias Schmidt wrote:
 > No, dma replaces sendmail/postfix (in parts).  "Sending through
> sendmail" means that your MUA uses the local installed MTA (here dma)
> and not a remote smarthost.  This is a known phrase.

for reference as in:

# /usr/sbin/sendmail -t <<EOF
From: me@here
Subject: IT IS AN EMAIL!

Hello! This email will be sent using the 'sendmail' binary
to send mail through the local MTA!

Doing email like this is very handy for sending
myself reminders and script output too. I Like it!

EOF

rather than some kind of SMTP API in whatever program whatever
application is written in..