Jeff Turner proclaimed on mutt-users that:
> Many Unix MUAs (pine, kmail, etc) do talk SMTP. Heck, the only other unix
> MUA I've used that *doesn't* talk SMTP natively is "mail".
and elm
> > It calls the program sendmail directly and pipes the message to it. You want
> > to install a sendmail replacement designed for this purpose. Look for ssmtp
> > on freshmeat.
> ssmtp rocks :) Takes about 5 mins to install and then you forget it exists.
Try http://www.hserus.net/pop_smtp.html for how to configure smarthosting
(plus a couple of other things, like turning off local dns lookups and
queueing mail while offline) on sendmail, exim and postfix. I rather doubt if
ssmtp / masqmail etc will do that for you.
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Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis
mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
