On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 05:20:50PM +0100, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > On my old laptop which ran on RedHat 7.2, I had installed "mutt". It has > been about 2 years since I have not used this. I remember that I had > spent quite a bit of time getting mutt to work, fiddling around with the > .muttrc conf file. Now, I would like to use "mutt" on my desktop under > Debian Sarge. I found that Mutt is part of the package that I installed > 2 years ago, still it does not work 'out of the box'. It does retrieve > mail though, using the command : > > mutt -f pop://myacco...@pop.myprovider.fr > > but I can't send any mail. If I try to, the system sends a mail saying > "mailing to remote domains not supported". > > So, I checked the old .muttrc file that I had on my old laptop, to find > the line below : > > " > set sendmail="/usr/local/bin/esmtp -X /tmp/esmtp.log" > "
esmtp is available as a package in Debian. Similar to it are nullmailer ssmtp and maybe others. Like any package that claims to be an MTA, it provides the standard /usr/sbin/sendmail command, and hence this is one thing you need not configure. Maybe a local spooling mailer such as exim or postfix would be better. > > Problem is that I can't think of inserting such line into the .muttrc > file on my desktop on Debian Sarge, since esmtp does not exist in here. Actually esmtp was introduced in Sarge: http://archive.debian.net/esmtp But then again, if you're using Sage, this is now a good time to upgrade (to Etch or maybe even Lenny). -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
