On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 07:52:14AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > can anybody tell me whether the debian mutt package is configured to enable > fetching from one's pop server. I get errors when I try to use the pop_host or > pop_user variables in my .muttrc.
I'm not sure of the answer to your question, but a lot of people use fetchmail or getmail to retrieve the mail from the POP server. Perhaps fetchmail might work in your case. It's also handy if you want to do mail filtering/sorting later down the track, because then you simply insert procmail (or similar) into the mix. I'd guess that most mutt users use it as a user agent only, without using it to pull messages from the mail server. > Also, I am a bit confused about sending mail in mutt in debian. All the examples > I see have sendmail in the .muttrc; some have /usr/lib/sendmail and some have > /usr/sbin/sendmail; both paths are on my system, but should I be using sendmail > directly or should I be including exim somewhere in my .muttrc entries? exim has a sendmail compatible mode in which it pretends to be sendmail. If you do "ls -l /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail" you'll probably find that they both point to exim via symlinks. In other words, any examples using "sendmail" should work OK with exim. - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
