alpine SMTP
Jeff Hyman
Consider this a claim that I am no guru when it comes to mutt, alpine or
SMTP. I just updated website cactus.com and am also making changes around
how email is delt with. I've always had Windoz use Thunderbird... and
that worked fine... have always used MUTT on 5.0.6 to/from lonestar.cactus.com
and the outside world, and that worked fine. I switched ISP's. MUTT does not
allow SMTP from what I understand. I have some other questions, but
for starters, is ALPINE the direction I want to go? My objective is to
maintain a mutt-style email agent at my 5.0.6 console... but the primary
email is controlled by Thunderbird.
TIA,
- Jeff H
Bill Campbell
Current versions of mutt have smtp support. Thunderbird, Apple's
Mail.app, and other MUAs (Mail User Agents) support outgoing SMTP
as well, including SMTP authorization which many ISPs now require
to help minimize spam injection.
You can always use the sendmail option with mutt to deliver to a
local machine that then sends to the ISP using SMTP/ESMTP, etc.
Every MTA (Mail Transport Agent) I've seen, postfix, smail, exim,
qmail, mmdf, etc. supports a sendmail program that accepts messages
via a *nix PIPE.
Bill
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Jean-Pierre Radley
You're running Thunderbird on 5.0.6?
Your mutt was probably not built with SMTP support, but so what: it
talks to sendmail or smail or some other Mail Transport Agent, and
that program is the one which talks to the outside world with SMTP.
By default, s(end)mail talks directly to the recipient sites, but if
your new ISP won't allow that and wants the outgoing traffic to come
through itself, then designate the ISP as a smarthost in your s(end)mail
configuration.,
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