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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