On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:14:07PM +1100, Matt - wrote: > I am looking for a brief introduction to Mutt, I > have searched for a few guides on the internet > but am actually still having trouble finding out > how to specify my mail servers.
you don't basically. It's true you can make mutt retrieve mail from a pop server (only one though) but don't bother, use fetchmail to do it for you. For doco, have you checked /usr/doc/mutt* on your system? there's manuals and faqs etc that come with it (or see www.mutt.org). Mutt is simply a mail reader. So to do what you want you would normally have 3 programs working together: - fetchmail to retrieve your pop email - mutt to read it and compose email (MUA - mail user agent) - sendmail/postfix/exim/ssmtp (or whatever) to send the email out to your ISP (MTA - mail transfer agent) This is the traditional unix way of having small simple programs each doing a single job well. > I also don't understand the local mail server > concept. Is it true that it's common practice to > have a mail server on my system constantly receive > mail and then offer it to my email programs - it > seems like most email programs want to check "local > mail" by default". yes, in the case I've described above the MTA is your local mail server which receives the email (from fetchmail in this case) and stores it in /var/mail (or /var/spool/mail). So fetchmail retrieves the email from your ISP, passes it to your local MTA which stores it in /var/mail ready to be read by your MUA (ie. mutt). Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
