Re: Mail transfer agent
On Thu 24 Sep 2020 at 01:24:13 (+0000), mike.junk.46@att.net wrote:
> When I installed a minimal system on my Raspberry PI no mta was installed.
> Though mutt claims to be a mta it seems it only will fetch mail not send it.
> Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
It's an MUA, so you can send emails via your ISP's smarthost
submission port. You need to set lines like the following in
your muttrc:
set·····smtp_url="smtp://loginname@smtp.server.net:587/"$
set·····smtp_pass="accountpassword"$
set·····smtp_authenticators="plain"$
set·····envelope_from_address="username@domainname.tld"$
set·····use_envelope_from$
where:
loginname and accountpassword are the authentication pair for the
smarthost,
smtp.server.net:587 is the smarthost and port number,
plain assumes you're using TLS encryption on the connection, so the
password is sent in plaintext,
username@domainname.tld is an routeable email address (ie a real one)
that the smarthost will accept for authorisation (ie for MAIL FROM:).
You may need to read-protect the file as there's a password in it.
> After struggling with postfix for several days without being able
> to send or receive mail, except like now via webmail, I'm about
> ready to go back to exim4 even though it's overkill for a single
> user on a single computer. Is there a light weight mta appropriate
> for a single user that's easy to configure?
Actually I use exim for all my emails except this list, where I use
mutt itself.
Cheers,
David.
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