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Date:      Fri, 18 May 2001 17:38:27 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Munish Chopra <messiah_man@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: text-only MUA...suggestions?
Message-ID:  <20010518173827.A94948@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <F30fTjiCy27Vo1X3hi100013c3a@hotmail.com>; from messiah_man@hotmail.com on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:08:09AM %2B0200
References:  <F30fTjiCy27Vo1X3hi100013c3a@hotmail.com>

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On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:08:09AM +0200, Munish Chopra wrote:
> I've been using mutt for a while, but I'm changing e-mail accounts now and 
> in need of SMTP support. Mutt doesn't support this, so I looked at pine as 
> an alternative. It seems (correct me if I'm wrong) kind of bloated...pico 
> and all kinds of other junk just come in with it according to the pkg-desc.
> 
> So, do any of you have suggestions for a text-only mailer that supports 
> SMTP?

SMTP is normally the role of the mail transfer agent (postfix,
sendmail, etc), not the mail user agent (mutt).  You could just
install something like postfix, which I find much easier to configure
than sendmail or qmail (but YMMV)

Kris

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