Sometime around Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:27:48PM -0600, Johnny said: > Hi > I am new at this just wanted to try to see if I can get it set up. > I have DSL and my ISP uses POP and SMTP > Which MTA would be the easy to configure. > The Distro that I am using is Debian-3.0r2 > > Johnny > > > > Patrick Shanahan wrote: > >* Johnny <linuxisaddictive@xxxxxxxxxxx> [02-17-05 12:58]: > > > >>I am still having problems getting mutt to get my email I there any > >>simple way of doing this for I have searched google and still can't > >>find a simple step-by-step instructions to get mutt to get my email. > >> > >>pop setup > >>smtp setup > >>auth smtp setup > >> > >>Theirs got to be a simpler way of doing this. Or I am over looking > >>something. > > > > > >Yes, mutt is an MUA, mail user agent, not a MTA, mail transfer agent. > >You compose mail within mutt and your configured editor and mutt hands > >the mail to your MTA. > > > >Have you configured your MTA? You haven't given much information to > >work with. We do not know what version of mutt, what distro and > >version, how you are connected, do you send your own mail or relay thru > >your provider, are you using sendmail or postfix or exim or what? > > > >Are you trying to use mutt with pop as indicated above? > There are several you can use, I use postfix ( http://postfix.org ). There are several how-tos on their website that should guide you through it. And, if you're using debian, debconf will walk your through the majority of the basic configuration. Also, look into fetchmail for retrieving mail from your ISP and procmail for sorting it once it arrives. HTH -- Brett Kelly inkedmn@xxxxxxxxxxx http://inkedmn.com:8000 GPG Fingerprint: 30D5 98CB 9716 856E 4DBF 5960 A01E 2057 7E94 7AB1 GPG Public Key: http://inkedmn.com:8000/stuff/inkedmn.asc
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