On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:55:54PM +0100, Mick wrote
>
> I appreciate that this is/was the starting point of mutt, but over
> the years I understand that mutt has added smtp and is able to use
> IMAP or POP servers directly. So, am I right to assume that it is
> not only a simple file reader any more.
I did say I'm a long time user of mutt ;) I didn't realize that it has
added smtp.
> Are you sure about this? I do not have sendmail installed, but
> do have ssmtp. There are symlinks from sendmail to ssmtp, so that
> various programs that call sendmail can eventually use ssmtp to send
> out their messages:
>
> $ ls -la /usr/sbin/sendmail
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jul 9 2011 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> ssmtp
I get ssmtp symlinks to...
/usr/bin/sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail
/usr/lib64/sendmail
> BTW, I have configured ssmpt to send out messages from root (cron
> job results) through Gmail, using my gmail account credentials.
> Will I need to alter this to be able to send out messages from mutt
> through different smtp relays?
I have one main machine at home, and I *DON'T* want daemons mailing
stuff out all over the place, so my problem is quite different from
yours. I think that daemons *EXPECT* a file or symlink called sendmail
to accept their email. If you want daemons sending log mails, then you
need something that emulates sendmail.
> Another question: how do you manage your address book?
>
> I would need email address autocompletion of some sort
The file ~/.mutt/.aliases is where addresses are stored. E.g. the line
for this mailing list is...
alias gentoo gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org (Gentoo Users List)
I hit "m" for "mail compose". When prompted for "To:", I type in...
gen
...and hit {TAB}, which gives "gentoo". This is replaced with...
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org (Gentoo Users List)
> and I would also need it to be able to pull in the appropriate public
> gpg or S/MIME key for the intended recipient and my corresponding
> private key(s) depending on the account that I am sending from.
I don't do PGP, so I'm not able to answer that question. Here's
something from the mutt manual that might be what you're looking for...
http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-3.html#ss3.19
> 3.19 Choosing the PGP key of the recipient
>
> Usage: pgp-hook pattern keyid
>
> When encrypting messages with PGP, you may want to associate a certain
> PGP key with a given e-mail address automatically, either because
> the recipient's public key can't be deduced from the destination
> address, or because, for some reasons, you need to override the
> key Mutt would normally use. The pgp-hook command provides a method
> by which you can specify the ID of the public key to be used when
> encrypting messages to a certain recipient.
--
Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
