On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 12:00:30AM +0200, Carl Johan Madestrand thus spoke:
> Hi
>
> I have managed to setup pop mail support so that i can receive mail from
> my pop server but how do i configure mutt to send mail from my pop
> account?
You are confusing two separate protocols, POP and SMTP.
POP simply lets you retrieve your mail from a folder on the remote host.
SMTP is the transport protocol used by MTA's (Mail Transport Agents) to
send mail around the net.
Clients such as Netscape, Eudora, and the like support BOTH protocols, POP
and SMTP. This is why they ask for an SMTP server as well as a POP server.
Mutt does not support SMTP directly, and instead requires use of an MTA on
the same machine to send mail. Various MTA's can be minimally configured
to be "dumb forwarders" that simply forward mail to a "smart host" (ie.,
your provider's SMTP server). There was also mention of a light pre-MTA
(...premail??) in the last week or so that could be used like this.
So, hopefully you understand you cannot "configure mutt to send mail from
my pop account". You must get an MTA of some sort...
mark->
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