From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 3 16:21:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 588F737B405 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:21:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moo.holy.cow (sdn-ar-004dcwashP040.dialsprint.net [206.133.21.152]) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f93NLM605947; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 16:21:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 305715109A; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 19:22:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 19:22:05 -0400 From: parv To: peter@spirit.lib.umt.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any Mutt users? Message-ID: <20011003192205.B28455@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: peter@spirit.lib.umt.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20011003134103.87414.qmail@spirit.lib.umt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011003134103.87414.qmail@spirit.lib.umt.edu>; from peter@spirit.lib.umt.edu on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:41:03PM -0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG oh, please, for the sake of everybody's sanity, do wrap your lines around 65 or so characters. this was, on the fateful occasion around Oct 03 09:41 -0400, sent by peter@spirit.lib.umt.edu > > OK, I'm taking the plunge. I'm learning mutt. welcome to the club. > I'm trying to figure out how to send e-mail through an SMTP server > with mutt (other than my own)... as others have suggested, that's the function of a MTA. both sendmail and postfix have options to define a relay smtp server. > ...be able to set the return address to something other than > username@mymachine.on.the.dialup. along w/ previous suggestions of "my_hdr" setting, you may also want to sepcify "canonical sender" option (postfix) in case mutt fails to specify the correct address. it had been happened to me at least 4-5 times & sent mail from various invalid addresses (depending on hostname, mydomain & myhost variables (postfix), 'Dj' macro (sendmail)). i will be damned if i could get a reply at any of those addresses. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message