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Re: Mutt questions



--- Jeffrey Chimene <jec@nospam.net> wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> Does Fetchmail send mail? I use Exim as my mail
> transfer agent
> (MTA). Mutt can speak directly to a POP server, so I
> don't use
> Fetchmail. Although, Fetchmail seems to be what you
> want if you
> automate your mail retrieval over a dialup link.
> Mutt doesn't
> seem to be very good at that task; probably by
> design as it's only a
> mail user agent (MUA).
> 
> An MUA like Mutt needs an SMTP server to send mail,
> so I use
> Exim. Exim mostly works right out-of-the-box, it
> only needs your SMTP
> address.
> 

Isn't my SMTP address different on each dialup?  How
does Mutt come by that address?  I can provide the
name of the server, my my connect address is always
different.


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