Re: still trying to get mutt to get email

[Johnny <linuxisaddictive@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?