Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 09:04:38 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: peter@spirit.lib.umt.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any Mutt users? Message-ID: <20011004090438.C97814@jonc.itouch> 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 References: <20011003134103.87414.qmail@spirit.lib.umt.edu>
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On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:41:03PM -0000, peter@spirit.lib.umt.edu wrote:
> OK, I'm taking the plunge. I'm learning mutt. I've been digging through docs but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for.
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to send e-mail through an SMTP server
> with mutt (other than my own)
That's not mutt's responsiblity. It's your local MTA's (sendmail, exim,
postfix, etc) job to forward your email to a central SMTP server. You
need to set up your MTA to hand your email onwards.
>and failing that, I'd really like to be
> able to set the return address to something other than
> username@mymachine.on.the.dialup.
All you have to do is to add to your ~/.muttrc:
my_hdr From: whomever@whatever.domain.i.want
>
> On a side note, I've configured mutt to recognize the several fbsd
> mailing lists, but I would like to somehow automate messages being sorted
> into different folders (i.e. freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ==> /questions)
This is a job for a mail-filter. I use mail/procmail (in the ports);
with the the following recipe in ~/.procmailrc to sort all my freebsd
mailing-lists email into respective folders:
#
# FreeBSD lists
:0:
* ^Sender:.*owner-\/freebsd-[^@]+@FreeBSD.ORG
{
LISTNAME=${MATCH}
:0
* LISTNAME??^\/[^@]+
${MATCH}
}
As with most things on UNIX, you have to find the right tool to do the
job you want. Mutt isn't like Outlook, which tries to do *everything*
(badly); it provides hooks for external programs, and only deals with
it's area of responsibility.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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