[ale] sendmail configuration

[Greg Freemyer]

2011/1/12 Björn 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