On 2008-08-03, Spiro Trikaliotis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > * On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 04:56:56PM +0700 Bayu Adiwibowo wrote: >> I using thunderbird to send this mail, recently i found that I can run >> cygwin with my USB, so I wonder how to use cygwin MUA like mutt to >> sending mail via gmail. As far in my research mutt look for sendmail >> program in exim or other smtp program running in localhost to sending >> mail, and this is not suite to my purpose. > > Yes, that's the way mutt works. mutt still uses the distinction between > MUA (mail user agent, that is, mutt itself) and MTA (mail transfer > agent, that is, something like sendmail, exim, and-so-on). > >> Maybe anyone in this list can point me a way to make mutt sending mail >> with remote SMTP server? > > You need to install an MtA like sendmail, exim, postfix, or similar. You > may, however, use a very simple one like ssmtp (it is available with > cygwin). This might be your easiest solution. > > HTH, > Spiro. >
I use mutt with exim ( via remote smtp ) and it works really good. You can choose ssmtp as substitute for exim. R -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
