[Fwd: Re: Cmdline mail client that talks to remote SMTP server?]

[Luis Finotti <finotti@math.ohio-state.edu>]

Steve Lamb wrote:
> Matt England wrote:
>
> > Does any such thing exist?
>
>
>     I do not believe so.  People will tell you that you need something heavy
> to do something that is so relatively simple.  Nevermind the gui clients
> have been doing it for years.
>
>
> > Do I effectively need to write some PHP, Python, or Perl app to do
> > this...something that uses an SMTP module from one of the
> > aforementioned language libraries?
>
>
>     Probably.  I don't recall either pine or mutt doing SMTP.  


I'm pretty sure Pine does, and so I'd assume that so does mutt.

debian[~]% cat .pinerc | grep smtp
smtp-server=<my smtp server>/novalidate-cert

HTH,

Luis

P.S.: Steve, sorry for sending this directly to you...