[Users] Periodic "connection failed"

[Ian Zimmerman]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 17:38:22 -0400
Pierre Fortin <pf at pfortin.com> wrote:

Haines> Does this mean Claws does not use sendmail? 

Pierre> Would seen reasonable assumption; but that's a dev question to
Pierre> be sure...

Normally, it doesn't.  That's why you specify a SMTP server as part of
account configuration.  Claws just feeds outgoing mails to the server
over a SMTP connection.

I'm sure you knew this, so in what other way would sendmail (or any
other MTA) be used?

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