On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 01:27:01PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > Dunno, what's that? I want my mail going to/from my school server. > > > > exim calls this a "smarthost". Rerun eximconfig and two of your canned > > configuration options will be > > > > (2) Internet site using smarthost: You receive Internet mail on this > > machine, either directly by SMTP or by running a utility such as > > fetchmail. Outgoing mail is sent using a smarthost. optionally with > > addresses rewritten. This is probably what you want for a dialup > > system. > > > > (3) Satellite system: All mail is sent to another machine, called a "smart > > host" for delivery. root and postmaster mail is delivered according > > to /etc/aliases. No mail is received locally. > > > > Choose one of these (probably the first) and, if your school will let you > > use > > them as a smarthost, you should be set. > > I did this. Mutt claims to send my mail (in other words it does not > complain), but the mail is never sent. I don't see anything in > /var/spool/mqueue, though perhaps I shouldn't. Maybe someone who has > this working can just send me the relevant config files, for either > exim or any other MTA (though preferably not the gargantuan > sendmail). It would really be nice to be able to send mail, sigh.. > chris
mutt will by default pipe its message to /usr/lib/sendmail (?) and that will send the mail to the smtp server or whatever. I have ssmtp and a smtpd server i made, so ssmtp (which has /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/ssmtp i think) sends the smtp data to my mail host which is localhost and my smtpd sends it to my smarthost.
