On Mon, November 10, 2014 10:25 pm, beni wrote: > hello, > > thank you for your answers regarding mutt and pop3 mail in mutt.user, > they've given me at least a chance of getting everything working that i > need to get going. :) > > i'm halfway there (i can get things from my ISP, but i haven't figured out > exim4 to my ISP connection yet). > > one step at a time...
What distribution are you running? In Debian, the default Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) is Exim4; your distribution may use Sendmail or some other MTA. The Debian maintainer of Mutt compiles Mutt to hand outgoing messages to Exim4 for transmission; no user configuration of Mutt is needed for this function. During installation (or afterward, using "dpkg-reconfigure exim4.config"), one of the details which you as the user specify is whether to use a "smarthost" for outgoing mail. The smarthost typically is the SMTP server of your ISP. If you specify that a smarthost is to be used, the reconfiguration dialogue asks you to specify the URL of the smarthost -- something such as "smtp.myisp.com". And that should be all that is required to configure the system for sending mail. RLH
