-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill, I wish I would have seen the first post. I apparently skipped over it when browsing.
Bill Witherspoon wrote on Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:51:51PM -0500 : > > Here's what I think I've learned (please correct me): > 1) Mutt doesn't have any SMTP code (although oddly it appears that > the Windows very does??) That is correct. Mutt is a MUA (Mail User Agent). It allows you to read mail. It allows you to reply to mail and hand it off to a local MTA (Mail Transfer Agent). That's pretty much it. > 2) sendmail/postfix/qmail/exim - full blown mail servers that for > my single workstation seems a bit overblown. They also appear to > like having a 'real' domain names to work with. Mutt is built with the old unix mentality of "take a lot of small programs that do one job and one job well and string their output together for the desired output". In mutt, that is preserved because you use fetchmail to get the messages, which hands it off to procmail to filter the messages. Procmail is called a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA). Then mutt reads it, and mutt can reply to mail or send new mail by handing it off to a local MTA. > 3) gui apps that require XFree86 like Kmail/Sylpheed that do > pop/imap reading, and smtp/auth sending. Perfect if I run a Gui. And bloated. > 4) some simple daemons that do smtp like nullmailer, but do > not do smtp/auth. (There's an open invitation to add that to > nullmailer (if you're good at C++) on their mailing list). [todd@fiji ~]$ rpm -qpi /work/Mandrake-devel/contrib/SRPMS/ssmtp-2.60.3-1mdk.src.rpm Name : ssmtp Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2.60.3 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: Sat Dec 28 04:23:40 2002 Install date: (not installed) Build Host: klama.mandrake.org Group : System/Servers Source RPM: (none) Size : 111532 License: GPL Packager : Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/ssmtp.html Summary : A minimal mail-transfer agent which forwards mail to an SMTP server. Description : This is sSMTP, a program that replaces sendmail on workstations that should send their mail via the departmental mailhub from which they pick up their mail (via pop, imap, rsmtp, pop_fetch, NFS... or the like). This program accepts mail and sends it to the mailhub, optionally replacing the domain in the From: line with a different one. This is from my cooker box, but it was also in 9.0 and 8.2 contribs. If it's not on your CD's, then download it from any 9.0 contrib mirror. > > >I'm trying to set up the following: > > >1) fetchmail getting my POP mail from my ISP. > > >2) Using procmail to filter, and deliver into my local mailbox. > > >3) Using Mutt to read it.... 4) Using some MTA to send it http://www.cerritoslug.org/tutorials/mutt.html Blue skies... todd - -- Never take no as an answer from someone who's not authorized to say yes. --Ben Reser on Cooker ML Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-2mdk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+JaKKlp7v05cW2woRAplPAKCqkjnACZbpq5uw88zZa5R0Hu9eAQCfcPmB +h05nNhh2PACbPYXyyshz3I= =Pmrn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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