Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 13:56:33 +0200 From: "Munish Chopra" <messiah_man@hotmail.com> To: keramidi@otenet.gr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: text-only MUA...suggestions? Message-ID: <F173sl3xbYiMCIqtQvA00014126@hotmail.com>
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Could you point me to some kind of doc or give me to instructions on how to get my sendmail to forward outgoing e-mail to the smtp-server? If I can keep using mutt this way I'd like that much better. Cheers, Munish >From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramidi@otenet.gr> >To: Munish Chopra <messiah_man@hotmail.com> >CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: text-only MUA...suggestions? >Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 02:58:03 +0300 > >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? > >I always thought that it's the MTA's work to support SMTP, and installed >Sendmail to do the dirty job of forwarding mail to my ISP. Why would you >want >to have Mutt doing this? It's a MUA (mail user agent). > >In other words, why dont you install Sendmail/qmail/Postfix/whatever to do >the >SMTP talking to your ISP, and have Mutt send the messages to their >destination >through the local queue? > >--giorgos > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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