Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 16:23:41 +0200 From: Benedikt Schmidt <s_bschmi@ira.uka.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: text-only MUA...suggestions? Message-ID: <20010519162341.B575@cloaked.de> 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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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? If you only need a simple way to send emails out of mutt without changing the configuration of your MTA. You could use a smaller commandline mta like nbsmtp http://www2.fastdial.net/~drysdam/software/software.html where you can specify your mail server on the commandline. ,----[ quote from nbsmtp website ] | Usage: | nbsmtp -d domain -f from@addr -h host [-p port] [-l debuglevel] | ... | I use the Mutt MUA (mail reader). So I added a line to .muttrc like so | | set sendmail="nbsmtp -d fastdial.net -h smtp.fastdial.net -f | drysdam@fastdial.net" `---- -- Benedikt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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