On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 01:25:00PM +1100, Jeff Turner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to configure mutt to send mail through a non-local SMTP
> server?
>
> Yes, I've read the FAQ entry saying "this ain't mutt's job", but.. all mutt
> does is send mail to *some* SMTP server. Why must that be localhost:25, instead
> of anotherhost:25? I'm not asking mutt to do the job of a MTA; I just want it to
> talk to the MTA of my choice.
Mutt doesn't talk to anyhost:25. It runs an executable that (typically)
queues the mail for an MTA to transfer later. That's often sendmail, but
can be qmail, Postfix, exim, etc. So... what you explicitly asked for
isn't possible.
On the other hand, try looking up ssmtp (there are others that are
similar). They are not "full" MDA, but have a sendmail wrapper that mutt
can call, whereafter they will queue the mail, or pass it off to some
other (remote) MDA. If memory serves, nullmailer is another one.
Tim
