Re: mutt question
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 11:54 am, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Richard <cms01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > New to mutt, is mutt a self contain email client,
> > or does it need, "sendmail" "procmail" or fetchmail, or other components
> > to make it a complete email client???
>
> Your question is worded incorrectly; mutt is a "complete" MUA. It isn't,
> however, an MTA, so you need another program to take the mail that mutt
> generates and send it elsewhere. That can be something like sendmail, or
> ssmtp, or something else.
>
> mutt does have basic built-in mail retrieval capability (POP and IMAP),
So, mutt can do pop3, and retrieve email and store email into folders,
or does it something else?
Rich