On 14Aug2013 09:23, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: | | > Yes. I use mutt myself, also text based. | | * | | Is there a homepage with a detailed manual for mutt? | | www.mutt.org | | I was reading: | Mutt doesn't talk smtp
No longer the case. | Is there a textbased software | for | pickup emails pop | and | send emails smtp. Yes to both. Firstly, if you fetch mutt-1.5.21 from http://www.mutt.org/download.html, unpack it and run: ./configure --help you'll see it has many optional parts. Running configure with the --enable-smtp option will make the built mutt capable delivering email directly with SMTP. Likewise there are --enable-pop and --enable-imap for fetching email, and many other options. Also, the versions of mutt shipped with most Linux distributions will be compiled with many of these options turned on. Therefore, Scott's instructions for SMTP setup will probably work for the mutt that comes with your Linux distribution. However, mutt was originally written to live in a larger ecosystem, and many of us do not use its pop or smtp features directly. Instead, we run a separate program to collect email, usually using POP. Programs such as fetchmail and getmail are common choices for this. I run "getmail" regularly to collect my email and deliver it to my "spool" folder. (And run a mail filing program to move messages out of there into various mail folders for various lists etc.) Likewise, we do not always send email directly using SMTP with mutt. If you're a "client" user then SMTP is a natural choice, but it doesn't work when you're offline (nowhere to deliver your email). Instead, we run a real mail system on our machines: exim, postfix, qmail and sendmail are the common choices here. Your Linux system will come with one of these preinstalled (but not very configured). _All_ of these provide a command called "sendmail" whose purpose is to accept an email message and queue it in the mail system. Mutt (by default) expects to send messages that way. The mail system itself will take care of delivery. This has the advantage that you can compose and dispatch messages while offline, and not worry. The mail system will catch up when it is next online. Of course, this still leaves you with the need to configure the mail system for SMTP; the default will expect to do direct delivery, and most consumer ISPs do not permit that these days; they expect you to deliver to their SMTP server. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. - Ambrose Bierce ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
