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Re: More questions about trying to use mutt with ssmtp



On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 08:41:38AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:30:48PM +0000, Stewart V. Wright wrote:
> >    set sendmail="${HOME}/bin/linux/ssmtp -oem -oi"
> > 
> > Yeah, I know it ain't science, and it sure as hell doesn't teach you
> > what's going on, but for me life is too short.  :)
> > 
> I finally read this properly and realised what you meant. Yes, my mutt
> has the same defaults for sendmail.  However the -oem and -oi options
> are explicitly listed in the ssmtp man page as doing nothing or being

Correct, `` set sendmail="/usr/local/sbin/ssmtp" '' should work fine.  It
does for me, anyway.

The program "ssmtp" was the first sendmail-substitute I could get to work.
I compiled with the -DMAILHUB define, and also made a valid ssmtp.conf file.
Did you define "mailhub" and "hostname" in ssmtp.conf, and place that file
where ssmtp can find it?  Did you mention Solaris?  I had to add a header
file to ssmtp.c to get it to build: "#include <netdb.h>".

> Anyway, as I said, nbsmtp seems to be working for me and if some

Even though I have ssmtp working, I worry about its not being supported/
available in the future.  "nbsmtp" didn't show up for me in my searches;
would you mind pasting the URL where you downloaded the source from?  TIA

henry nelson