I've used mutt for nearly 20 years, but since I install it from a deb
package, the latest version I have is 1.5.21 -- almost 9 years old.
I figured out enough of sendmail to use as an MTA, but it recently got
the better pf me. I've been informed that newer versions of mutt have
a built in SMTP client, so I can avoid sendmail.
I'd like to compile the source code of 1.12.0. What would I need to
bear in mind as far as overwriting ~/.muttrc and/or /etc/Muttrc? I
notice that with my current installation, typing mutt -v includes
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
Am I to assume that I would have had sendmail in my environment at the
time the deb was installed? So I'd need to remove it so that I can
compile mutt with built-in SMTP. What else would I need to bear in
mind?
I'm a bit apprehensive about compiling code outside the control of a
package manager, but I can't see a way around it -- unless someone has
made a more recent .deb.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Frank
