On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:37:50AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 12May2012 19:34, Jim Graham <spooky1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Macs ship with postfix, far easier to configure than sendmail. :-) Postfix and I don't get along. I tried just configuring it to handle internal e-mail (e.g., from calendar to me, etc.), and I eventually went back and put sendmail back in place. Now, OS X probably has a simple interface that'll make it easy, but when I tried, it was anything but. But then, back before cancer #1 and the damage it did to my brain and memories, I was more comfortable in sendmail.cf than anything else. I still am, but not by nearly as much. > Look at /etc/postfix/main.cf; lots of comments etc. You're mostly > interested in $myorigin and $relayhost. I've got Mutt (here on my FreeBSD system) configured to connect directly to gmail's SMTP server and send e-mail. I'll be keeping that configuration. After that, fetchmail (run by cron every two minutes) gets incoming e-mail and hands it off to procmail. The sendmail/postfix configuration will almost certainly be, as it is today, for internal e-mail. > "postconf" recites the active settings; "postfix check" does a sanity > check. "postfix reload" to reconsult main.cf. "mailq" as usual to > consult the outbound mail queue. "postfix flush" to flush the queue > after a config change. I'll definitely keep these bits for reference next month. Thanks. As far as mailq, I see Mutt connecting, authenticating, and sending e-mail as soon as I send it. There is, essentially, no mail queue. :-) But all of these things aren't so complicated. The reason for my original post in this thread was to see if anything in OS X might interfere with using Mutt. I didn't expect that there would be, but I'd hate to try to pull up an xterm and find it missing. :-) (I'm still a command-line guy...reason for running X? Multiple x-terms, multiple desktops, xbiff, and my freeware Tcl/Tk hurricane tracking program, JStrack[1]). Thanks, --jim [1] http://www.jstrack.org/jstrack/ (And then there's the weather monitoring program I wrote in Tcl/Tk, too---it warns me when certain watches/warnings are posted by NWS, but you won't find that anywhere but on my system ... same for the digital clock I wrote, also Tcl/Tk.) -- THE SCORE: ME: 2 CANCER: 0 73 DE N5IAL (/4) MiSTie #49997 < Running FreeBSD 7.0 > spooky1...@gmail.com ICBM/Hurr.: 30.44406N 86.59909W "The iPad is a status symbol for yuppies. The Android is for people who actually want something that works." Android Apps Listing at http://www.jstrack.org/barcodes.html
