On 06/02/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following other thing:
> Can mutt use SMTP directly? Our sysadmins can't figure out how to
> reliably configure my local sendmail.
Can someone please add this question to whatever is our FAQ these days?
If someone else doesn't step up to the plate, I'm going to take over the
FAQ. The current one still points to muddcs.cs.hmc.edu for the mail
hosting, for instance.
To answer your question, though I'm sure other people have more
information, no, mutt will not do SMTP directly.
On the other hand, there are a bunch of mail transport agents out there
which you can use if sendmail is too hard to configure. ssmtp, which
can be found at your local debian mirror, is a very simple, easy to
configure SMTP client which is almost the equivalent of built in SMTP,
ie don't expect queuing or anything like that.
Others recommend using Postfix as a sendmail level client with a much
easier configuration.
Or, you can use sendmail and set the the smart relay host to a known
configured relay machine on your network. If you look in the
sendmail.cf file, you will see the location to add this configuration,
it is the DS config variable, add something like:
DSmy.relay.host.com
Brandon
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