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Date:      Sat, 19 May 2001 13:56:33 +0200
From:      "Munish Chopra" <messiah_man@hotmail.com>
To:        keramidi@otenet.gr
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: text-only MUA...suggestions?
Message-ID:  <F173sl3xbYiMCIqtQvA00014126@hotmail.com>

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Could you point me to some kind of doc or give me to instructions on how to 
get my sendmail to forward outgoing e-mail to the smtp-server? If I can keep 
using mutt this way I'd like that much better.

Cheers,
Munish


>From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramidi@otenet.gr>
>To: Munish Chopra <messiah_man@hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: text-only MUA...suggestions?
>Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 02:58:03 +0300
>
>On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 01:08:09AM +0200, Munish Chopra wrote:
> > I've been using mutt for a while, but I'm changing e-mail accounts now 
>and
> > in need of SMTP support. Mutt doesn't support this, so I looked at pine 
>as
> > an alternative. It seems (correct me if I'm wrong) kind of 
>bloated...pico
> > and all kinds of other junk just come in with it according to the 
>pkg-desc.
> >
> > So, do any of you have suggestions for a text-only mailer that supports
> > SMTP?
>
>I always thought that it's the MTA's work to support SMTP, and installed
>Sendmail to do the dirty job of forwarding mail to my ISP.  Why would you 
>want
>to have Mutt doing this?  It's a MUA (mail user agent).
>
>In other words, why dont you install Sendmail/qmail/Postfix/whatever to do 
>the
>SMTP talking to your ISP, and have Mutt send the messages to their 
>destination
>through the local queue?
>
>--giorgos
>
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