On 2/23/07, Ag. Hatzimanikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 23, at 10:50 Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > > I'm stupid about mutt. Does libesmtp allow me to use a remote MTA > > instead of my local MTA? Or does it just add ESMTP support to the > > current SMTP dialog? > > And by coincidence the patch just applied by Brendan (it was his > patch anyway) -unfortunately there is no access right now to the web interface > to link to it,maybe because they are moving from cvs to mercurial > (that's the plan). > > Oh,and disregard! > The patch doesn't look to depend on libesmtp.[1] > I had a different patch in mind,last night when I wrote it. > Last night? > Did I mention that it was my birthday? > 40 years officially and... counting.I owe you a drink. :)
Happy Birthday, Ag! I think I owe _you_ a drink! What do the Greeks like to drink? Are you familiar with the phrase "over the hill"? :-) I don't know if that's an American phrase. > By the way Dan, > We already have the --enable-pop by default > -- Oh,I almost forgot about that. > If someone wants to use pop with gmail it has to use also --with-ssl > configure switch.Should we have to mention it also? > --- > So I wonder,that with the same logic that we use --enable-pop,then it will > be wise to add --enable-smtp in the instructions. Yes, this is exactly the situation. I can fetch my gmail account fine over POP, but if I want to send mail for the same address, it's kind of tricky. The options (from my non-expert mail setup POV): * Setup postfix to forward mail through the Google SMTP server when the envelope sender is @gmail.com. I think this is possible, but I haven't tried to figure it out yet. I currently have a rule to forward all outgoing mail through my ISP's server, and I think I could configure it to do both. * Just send it from my MTA and hope the receiving SMTP server doesn't reject it due to mismatches in server/envelope sender. (This ignores the fact that I don't think I understand how mutt sets the envelop sender. So many damn options!) * Use mutt-ng, which has support for remote SMTP through libesmtp. http://mutt-ng.berlios.de/manual/smtp.html In Mutt, apparently they do think it's too much for this support. http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttFaq/Sendmail > For those who don't know, Mutt is not doing SMTP -until now -(currently > relies on 3rd > party software to do this) --I am using libesmtp/esmtp if that matters. > > Patch against an older version. > 1. http://mutt.kublai.com/patches/patch-1.5.11.bc.smtp.14 > > PS. > Looking in it,there are some number of supported protocols,and there is > also a StartTLS SMTP extension,which is what is being used (I believe) to > send message through gmail's smtp server. > Again it needs --enable-ssl for that matter. Thanks. I'll look at that. But, mutt-ng looks very intriguing since it folds in many of those patches by default. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
