Re: shortcuts sought for mutt
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 05:20:50PM +0100, Bernard wrote:
> Hi to Everyone,
>
> On my old laptop which ran on RedHat 7.2, I had installed "mutt". It has
> been about 2 years since I have not used this. I remember that I had
> spent quite a bit of time getting mutt to work, fiddling around with the
> .muttrc conf file. Now, I would like to use "mutt" on my desktop under
> Debian Sarge. I found that Mutt is part of the package that I installed
> 2 years ago, still it does not work 'out of the box'. It does retrieve
> mail though, using the command :
>
> mutt -f pop://myaccount@pop.myprovider.fr
>
> but I can't send any mail. If I try to, the system sends a mail saying
> "mailing to remote domains not supported".
>
> So, I checked the old .muttrc file that I had on my old laptop, to find
> the line below :
>
> "
> set sendmail="/usr/local/bin/esmtp -X /tmp/esmtp.log"
> "
esmtp is available as a package in Debian. Similar to it are nullmailer
ssmtp and maybe others. Like any package that claims to be an MTA,
it provides the standard /usr/sbin/sendmail command, and hence this is
one thing you need not configure.
Maybe a local spooling mailer such as exim or postfix would be better.
>
> Problem is that I can't think of inserting such line into the .muttrc
> file on my desktop on Debian Sarge, since esmtp does not exist in here.
Actually esmtp was introduced in Sarge:
http://archive.debian.net/esmtp
But then again, if you're using Sage, this is now a good time to upgrade
(to Etch or maybe even Lenny).
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