On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:34:45PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 19 Jun 2000:
> > Hmmm... I use Qmail as my SMTP server on my server, but not on this
> > machine. Maybe I should use Qmail on this machine also...
>
> Maybe, no arguments from me. :-) (I use qmail at home too...)
<grin> Well, I've got two servers that run Qmail, but on my personal
machine I just kept sendmail on there from the Mandrake install. Too
lazy to put qmail on there too I suppose, although I think maybe I am
going to do that soon (after my 7.1 powerpack gets here so I can
upgrade from the beta).
> > Is there no way to get mutt to talk to sendmail in the same way as
> > Pine?
>
> Not directly, Mutt doesn't talk SMTP at all. What you need to do (if
> you really want to relay the mail over SMTP somewhere) is get a program
> such as sSMTP or one of the other alternatives, and use that for mail
> delivery then. sSMTP simply takes an email message as standard input
> and sends it to some pre-configured SMTP host, nothing more. You can
> find the link to it from the Mutt home page.
Hmmm... maybe I'll have to look into that.
> > 1.2 is the devel version, no?
>
> No, it's the latest stable release. Although 1.2.1 is expected "soon".
Ok, you've got me convinced... Maybe I'll make new Mandrake RPMs for
it if there aren't any already... =)
> > Hmmm... I think I want to get 1.0.1
> > working properly first... =)
>
> As you wish, your choice, although I would recommend 1.2 as it has a
> number of useful features (including $envelope_from) in addition to some
> bugfixes.
I'm going to look into it and see about making an RPM for it. I like
to keep a "clean" system, which is why I hedge on some upgrades. =)
> > How can I pass the active email address
> > to the $sendmail variable? Ie. sometimes I send as
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and sometimes I send as
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Obviously I don't want the Return-Path to be
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I send from the admin address? Is
> > there a variable like, say, $email I can put in there like:
> >
> > sendmail="/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -oem -f$email"
>
> No, you can't use a Mutt variable like that, unfortunately (the variable
> *would* be $from in Mutt 1.2, nothing like that in Mutt 1.0.1, but you
> still can't refer to other variables in 1.2...)
>
> So you're stuck to setting $sendmail directly in whatever place also
> changes your From header address. Again, in Mutt 1.2 you wouldn't need
> to do that since you could use $envelope_from. :-)
dOh! Again, you've got me convinced... thanks, Mikko!
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