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".
Another option (which *does* involve upgrading to lenny, sorry) is
that mutt in lenny has built-in ESMTP capabilities. Just set:
set smtp=smtps://myaccount@pop.myprovider.fr
et voila!
Cheers,
--
Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator
Federation of Students
University of Waterloo
p: (519) 888-4567 x36329
e: egerlach@feds.uwaterloo.ca
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