Quoting Rod Pike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who wrote:
> > I'm confused, you seem to be mixing IMAP and SMTP up here. Sendmail is
> > an SMTP server and a delivery agent, it is not an IMAP server. IMAP
> > is usually used to READ mail, and SMTP is always used to SEND mail.
>
> Sorry if I'm confusing things. You are right, this really has nothing
> to do with IMAP. I'm just refering to the one computer which handles
> mail in my network. It runs IMAP so that I can access my mail from
> other computers so I refer to it as an "IMAP server". I only wanted to
> point out that my mail is being handled remotely. I am refering to how
> Sendmail is configured on the same computer (the one running imapd)
Ok, so you read your mail with IMAP, which mutt does well.
Mutt ONLY sends mail through the local mail system, so you need
a ../sendmail on your workstation that accepts mail. Do you have that?
I use nullmailer, because life is too short to screw with sendmail.
Whatever you use will most likely use smtp to forward the mail to your
gateway (the "IMAP server" machine). So you need an smtp server on
your mail gateway. Do you have one? It sounds as if you do, and that
its sendmail.
Then you need the MTA (the smtp server, sendmail in you say) on that
gateway to deliver mail...
What part is not working? I thought you said originally that you
wanted to configure some machine (the workstation or gateway?) to
forward to one of a set of smtp servers, and to reconfigure which one
on the fly.
I'm kind of puzzled, I don't know what your network setup is, or what
you're trying to achieve, so I can't really make any suggestions.
Sam
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Sam Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
