On 2, sep, 2000 at 12:55:15 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
Hi Parker.
> First of all, I can't figure out how to change the display Email address
> from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" on the messages I
> send out.
Put this in your ~/.muttrc
set hdrs
my_hdr From: Your Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I think there are other ways, but I use the above solution.
> Also, sendmail takes care of sending my emails but, for security
> reasons, I thought i'd configure Mutt to connect to my ISP's SMTP server
> and shutdown sendmail altogether. The less services running the
> better. I'm not sure if this can be done or if it's wise to do so. My
> guess is that fetchmail won't work properly because from what I
> understand, it hands off any new messages to sendmail and it takes care
> of the rest. I remember reading somewhere in the documentation that
> Mutt can retrieve my mail from my POP account. However, does sendmail
> need to be running to handle incoming mail properly?
It's a good thing to close as many ports as possible, but if I were you
I'd do this:
Make fetchmail use `procmail' as mda (see man fetchmail, the `mda'
option in the rc-file). Sendmail should be started as `sendmail -q30m',
quoting from memory (I use exim, so I don't have the manpage), that way
it will not listen on port 25, and both local mail and outgoing mail will
be delivered normally.
YMMV
> Ideally, I'd like to get Mutt configured so that I can start using it
> and in time, get to know it better. It looks like a pretty capable mail
> client.
It is, very much. :-)
HAND
Morten
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