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Re: USE_SMTP flag



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On Saturday, March  8 at 08:48 AM, quoth Amit Finkler:
>Kyle Wheeler wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, March  8 at 08:37 AM, quoth Amit Finkler:
>>> Meaning the USE_SMTP flag does not have to be on?
>>
>> Correct. The USE_SMTP flag indicates whether mutt can speak SMTP
>> itself. This is a relatively new feature; before mutt had the ability
>> to speak SMTP, it could only execute a sendmail program (often
>> /usr/bin/sendmail) to send mail. A common program to use when mutt
>> cannot speak SMTP (i.e. the USE_SMTP flag is either off or does not
>> exist), for those who didn’t want to install sendmail (that is: almost
>> everybody), is msmtp.
>>
>> ~Kyle
>So what's the line I should write in .muttrc to use msmtp?

The documentation isn't that complicated. Check out the basics:
http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/doc/mutt+msmtp.txt

The line you're looking for is in step 4:

     set sendmail="/usr/local/bin/msmtp"

~Kyle
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