* Chris G <[email protected]> [10-28-10 09:57]:
> What I was hoping/imagining might be possible was to tell mutt that the
> sendmail it should use is on another machine.  Given that that is a
> trusted/closed network behind a firewall that isn't unreasonable
> security wise.
> 
> There are no web clients of any sort involved.  I just have four or five
> machines on a LAN with one always on server machine.  Most of the time I
> send mail from my desktop machine using mutt but occasionally I send
> mail from other machines on the LAN and it would be very convenient if I
> could simply tell those other mutts that they can send their mail
> through the LAN server's postfix.

Then the simplest solution would be to ssh into your machine containing
the smtp system and use the mutt instance resident there.  I do this or
vnc to my home machine frequently when on the road with my wife and her
windoz laptop.

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