Chuck Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 01 Mar 2000:
> 1. Sendmail configuration
> This was one that got me for a while. Having always used web based email
> clients or clients with their own SMTP stuff in them, my sendmail has
> been badly configured at home for at least a year. The mutt help I found
> on this was not very helpful.
This would probably benefit from having more explanation of the mail
sending process in the Mutt docs. I don't agree that Mutt should give
specific pointers to sendmail documentation, because even though
sendmail is the currently most prominent MTA, it's by far not the only
one. And Mutt documentation should be about using Mutt, not about how
to configure any number of other MTA programs... But, explaining the
process clearly and then saying that for help configuring the MTA you
should refer to the documentation about that MTA is probably the right
thing to do.
If you ask me, I wouldn't use sendmail as a newbie's MTA, the beast is
not for the faint at heart.
> At first I tried sSMTP but had
> difficulties getting it to work correctly especially as I needed to keep
> sendmail as an MDA for fetchmail to deliver to.
Actually, you don't need sendmail. You can have fetchmail deliver
directly to some mailbox, or you can make it invoke any program (eg.
procmail) to do the mail delivery and/or mail filtering. It's just
that having it talk to the local MTA is the default (and probably a
good default, too).
> There are way too many options in the sample config file.
> At least the standard ones which users might like to change should be
> put at the top of the file and the more esoteric below that.
There are some really good example .muttrc-files on the web (Telsa's
example comes to mind *grin*). You can find links to these on the Mutt
web page. However, I don't think the documentation even tells that
there are more (and better) examples available on the website, so unless
the user thinks for themselves to look there, they're left with the
default example .muttrc. I'm not sure, but it can be that anyone has
put significant effort into that file.
> It would be great to have a tutorial for the new Mutt user to go through
> installation and configuration clearly and in detail.
Yes, it would be great to have one. :-)
Mikko
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