On Tuesday 28 May 2013 02:39:11 Walter Dnes wrote: > 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.
I appreciate that this is/was the starting point of mutt, but over the years I understand that mutt has added smtp and is able to use IMAP or POP servers directly. So, am I right to assume that it is not only a simple file reader any more. I have successfully used it with an IMAP server and was able to send and receive, but I'm not entirely sure how to replicate my Gmail settings from Kmail (it errors out, crashes, etc.) > 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. Are you sure about this? I do not have sendmail installed, but do have ssmtp. There are symlinks from sendmail to ssmtp, so that various programs that call sendmail can eventually use ssmtp to send out their messages: $ ls -la /usr/sbin/sendmail lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jul 9 2011 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> ssmtp BTW, I have configured ssmpt to send out messages from root (cron job results) through Gmail, using my gmail account credentials. Will I need to alter this to be able to send out messages from mutt through different smtp relays? Another question: how do you manage your address book? I would need email address autocompletion of some sort and I would also need it to be able to pull in the appropriate public gpg or S/MIME key for the intended recipient and my corresponding private key(s) depending on the account that I am sending from. -- Regards, Mick
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
