RE: Newbie configuration - sending email (SMTP)
Thanks for the tip with sSMTP. I only needed to integrate with my work
email SMTP server, so that was extremely easy to setup.
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From: owner-mutt-users@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-mutt-users@xxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Bryan Bibb
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 3:23 PM
To: mutt-users@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Newbie configuration - sending email (SMTP)
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 02:24:40PM -0400, David Fishburn wrote:
> Does anyone have a simple sendmail.cf file (or perhaps what simple
> changes are required to the default one) to configure it to send
> email?
There is a setting in muttrc where you give the command that sends mail.
The default is to send via the "sendmail" command. This command could
call the Sendmail program, but it could also call Postfix or other MTA
programs designed to emulate sendmail.
Basically, your question has to start with which MTA you have and/or
would like to use. I personally recommend Postfix if you would like to
have a more complicated setup. If you just want to "relay" to a smart
host at your ISP, then you could try a little program called sSMTP,
which serves only to pushes mail to the relay. The config file for that
one is only a handful of lines long.
Also, sendmail.cf isn't necessarily the way to configure sendmail. Check
out http://www.sendmail.org/m4/readme.html.
Good luck.
Bryan
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