why'd i never before thought of using smtp locally as a relay

so the mail client can work fully offline, and not need to speak smtp at all
@navi One of the benefits of using qmail is that you don't need to think of it because the architecture makes the correct solution the obvious one 😉
@ska @navi Well it's also pretty much what clients like mutt encourages (although I think it can speak smtp nowadays).
@lanodan @ska when i got into "using email outside of the painful occasional gmail email", went with neomutt, and pretty much all resources pointed to having it manage stmp directly

so it never once was presented to me the possibility of running a stmpd locally as a relay, in my head local stmpds were only meant for shared servers -- silly me
@navi @lanodan @ska well, you also don’t need to directly talk smtp to your local smtpd: you can just use `sendmail`
@humm @navi @lanodan Please don't participate in keeping alive that old, clunky, half-supported and third-supportable interface that was an afterthought. The sooner we can bury anything remotely sendmail-related, the better.

@ska @humm @navi True, that said I think it's kind of neat to have a command rather than having to run an SMTP daemon at a defined port.

And like even mxclient uses a compatible-enough interface: https://github.com/richfelker/mxclient?tab=readme-ov-file#usage

GitHub - richfelker/mxclient: A minimalist client for sending mail direct to recipient's MX

A minimalist client for sending mail direct to recipient's MX - richfelker/mxclient

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