Sorry for replying to my own mail!

Adayapalam Appaiah Kumaraswamy wrote:
Now, in the beginning, when I was new to the system, I asked the system
administrator whether I could use the ordinary "mail" program for
e-mail, but the admin said that is not possible with this setup.
However, now I feel this is possible, if sendmail is properly
configured, since /var is also mounted from a common place, so
/var/spool/mail/(user) should be available to all. Is it not so?

I still don't know about this.

Anyway, I want to use mutt to handle my mail. Now, I can configure
fetchmail to get messages using POP from the mail server. But fetchmail
refuses to write fetched messages because the sendmail service is not
running.

Neither do I know about this.

Well, I could use the "fetch-mail" feature in mutt itself. But then,
again, how do I send mail? sendmail is not configured to deliver to the
SMTP server, and the administrator doesn't seem to be in a mood to
configure it right now (maybe I can pester him next week). Is there
still a way for me to use mutt?

Another careful google search led me to a an SMTP wrapper written in Perl, to replace sendmail. That solves the SMTP part, I guess. Sorry for posting this question!


Kumar


-- Adayapalam Appaiah Kumaraswamy (Kumar Appaiah)





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