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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:11:04 -0600 (CST)
From:      David Fleck <david.fleck@mchsi.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MUTA
Message-ID:  <20040323070820.S17674@grond.sourballs.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040322104357.GA81524@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <20040322043307.2206.qmail@web25006.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <20040322104357.GA81524@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>

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On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> mutt or pine are CLI e-mail programs (I prefer mutt as you can see
> from the headers of this message, but pine is possibly a bit
> friendlier to the beginner): both of those have the capability to read
> mail out of a POP mailbox.  However, they expect to have a local
> sendmail (or qmail or exim or postfix or other MTA) instance that they
> can inject e-mail into for sending messages.
[...]

Not necessarily - Pine, at least, can be configured to use a remote smtp
server:

(from my .pinerc file):
# List of SMTP servers for sending mail. If blank: Unix Pine uses
sendmail.
smtp-server=mail.isp.com/novalidate-cert


--
David Fleck
david.fleck@mchsi.com



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