Re: Mutt questions

[grante@visi.com (Grant Edwards)]

In muc.lists.debian.user, you wrote:

> Does Fetchmail send mail?

No.  It retieves mail from a POP or IMAP server and turns it
over to a local MTA for delivery.

> 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.

Right.

> 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,

No, it needs a local MTA.  SMTP is not necessarily involved
(though it generally is at some point if your MTA needs to
transfer mail to a remote MTA).

> so I use Exim. Exim mostly works right out-of-the-box, it only
> needs your SMTP address.

OK.

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