On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 09:39:11PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 01:49:47PM +0100, Mick wrote > > I would be grateful if some kind soul guided my hand on configuring > > mutt to behave like ... errm ... kmail! O_o > > Hi; a long-time mutt-user here. The authoritative source for info is > http://www.mutt.org/ You can subscribe to their mailing list. They > also have the comp.mail.mutt newsgroup. > > First, let's look at what mutt *ISN'T*. It's not a singing-dancing > all-inclusive "integrated" monstrosity. It reads email, writes email, > and hands it off to your local MTA for delivery. In addition to mutt I > also need "getmail" (or equivalant), procmail, and "ssmtp" (or > equivalant). And the organization of my inboxes controls mutt, not visa > versa. My setup here at home... > I can receive email from 3 sources... > my personal domain MX > my Google account > my ADSL ISP > my emergency backup dialup account > > I use maildir format storage. I run a script that calls getmail for > each account. getmail passes the emails to procmail, which passes the > emails to the appropriate inboxes. I set up a separate inbox for each > mailing last or group that I belong to. > > mutt reads the email. It "sends" to ssmtp, which is a very simplified > sendmail. All it does is push the email out the door to my ISP's MTA, > which does the real work. I dislike only one thing about ssmtp. It > *INSISTS* on installing "sendmail" symlinks in 3 or 4 different > locations, all pointing back to /usr/sbin/ssmtp. My most embarressing > moment as a user was when a chatty daemon started sending a bunch of > stuff to "root@" my ISP. I did not appreciate that. After that, I > tightened down what stuff gets sent where by daemons, and set up a > script that wipes the symlinks. I have to rerun it after each ssmtp > update. > > -- > Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> > I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications >
Hi, New mutt user here. I'm curious as to why you are using ssmtp, mutt can talk SMTP directly. That simplifies thing as well regarding the "sendmail" symlinks. -- staticsafe O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post - http://goo.gl/YrmAb Don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on.
