On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 06:24:26PM -0700, Joe Copeland wrote:
> How do I configure mutt to use another smtp server rather than the sendmail
> server that's setup by default with redhat? I want to use my mailserver at
> 192.168.1.15 instead.
Mutt (and MUAs on Unix, in general) don't talk to an SMTP server. That's
a PC-ism, from when PCs were second-class Internet citizens. Mutt will
run a program on your local machine which is responsible for (somehow)
getting the mail into the SMTP system.
If you run qmail or sendmail or Postfix, etc., the mail will be queued
on your local machine and sent as soon as possible. If you want a
different behavior, look at "nullmailer" or others (the names escape my
mind at the moment).
You may need to tell mutt to use a different program (by default it uses
/usr/sbin/sendmail). You do this by setting the "sendmail" variable in
your .muttrc. Mine says:
set sendmail="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject"
since I use qmail.
Tim
