On Sun, August 26, 2007 17:42, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > I vaguely remember that I had difficulties > in the past when I tried to get exim4 to work over a forwarded port. The > most straightforward approach is to run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" > and select "local delivery only" (for system mails from cronjobs, etc.). > Then you can either use mutt's built-in smtp mechanism (exists in Lenny > and Sid, but not in Etch, I think) or you can install the "msmtp" > package which provides a sendmail work-alike that is very easy to > configure. Here is an example configuration file (~/.msmtprc): > > #------------------------- > tls on > host localhost > port 2525 > from [EMAIL PROTECTED] > auth on > user YOUR_USERNAME > password YOUR_PASSWORD > #------------------------- > > Then you can tell mutt to use msmtp by putting > > set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp" > > into your ~/.muttrc and you should be ready to go.
Florian, you are a genius! You make it all so simple. I'll get on to it shortly and let you know if it succeeds. > Of course, it would be even more interesting if you could install and > configure msmtp on your VM (using the smarthost of your provider > directly in .msmtprc). If this works with mutt running on the VM then it > should be possible to use "method 2" of my previous mail for your local > mutt by changing the command in the wrapper script to: > > cat - | ssh myvm "/usr/bin/msmtp $@" I may try that too. Thanks again, -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
