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using mutt to send/recieve email
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:43 pm
by nigma
I'd like to get things setup so that I can use mutt to send & recieve email. So far i've configured fetchmail to get the mail from the pop servers which I can then access from mutt. Now I need to get mutt to use my smtp servers to send email. Is this a complicated thing to do? I
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 6:20 pm
by timvw
http://wiki.mutt.org/index.cgi?MuttFaq/Sendmail
How do I configure Mutt to use a remote SMTP server to send mail?
Mutt can't do so directly! Read the MailConcept to understand why this won't change! You must specify a local MTA to do it. The MTA must have a sendmail compatible interface to be used with $sendmail. See LightSMTPagents for which to use, configure, install.
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:14 pm
by nigma
Thanks for that excellent link. I'll let you know when I get things working.