From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 19 7:23:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wn4-marvin.wn4.uni-karlsruhe.de (nat-wohnheime.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de [193.196.41.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9BE37B424 for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 07:23:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steele@wn4-marvin.wn4.uni-karlsruhe.de) Received: by wn4-marvin.wn4.uni-karlsruhe.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C0E99CFA61; Sat, 19 May 2001 16:23:41 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 16:23:41 +0200 From: Benedikt Schmidt To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: text-only MUA...suggestions? Message-ID: <20010519162341.B575@cloaked.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from messiah_man@hotmail.com on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:08:09AM +0200 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 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