[CLUE-Tech] mail from a box without a mail server

[David Anselmi]

Keith Hellman wrote:
[...]

> Jason:  I'm not a mail guru but I'm pretty sure you don't HAVE to have a
> mail server running to SEND mail.  I've sent mail via telnet before (
> although only for debugging purposes).  Whenever I want to mail some
> thing directly from a program I use the /bin/mail command.

AFAIK, some programs require an MTA to send mail--that way they don't 
have to know SMTP, just pass the mail in to the MTA program.  But having 
an MTA (like sendmail) installed to send doesn't mean it listens to receive.

Or that it listens to anything besides localhost.

Or that the firewall rules don't block all unwanted connections (in or out).

Or that I know what I'm talking about ;-)

Dave