In my long-running struggle to convert from elm to mutt, I think I
have found why elm can send mail and why mutt can't. It seems to be
related to utility included with elm called sndmail which acts like a
preprocessor for sendmail and formats the command line correctly in a
routine called mailmsg2.c with the following code:-
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Precedence: bulk
sprintf(very_long_buffer,"sndmail %s -af %s -f %s@%s %s >nul 2>&1",
background ? "-bg" : "",
whole_msg_file, username, hostfromname,
strip_parens(strip_commas(expanded_to)));
The -af flag seems like a flag from old versions of sendmail for
OS/2. It isn't mentioned in the SENDMAIL book, but I guess the
equivalent is the re-direct sign '<'.
Any help in getting the above line set up correctly for the sendmail
option in my muttrc would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
--
John
