Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 11:09:05 +0000 From: Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> To: Mike Sanders <tmp1@freebsd.hypermart.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd : 10 : mutt : 1.5.23 : with ssmtp? Message-ID: <20140405110904.GA11187@SDF.ORG> In-Reply-To: <20140405091549.GA7587@SDF.ORG> References: <20140405072139.GA12260@SDF.ORG> <20140405081136.GA936@taco-shack.cow> <20140405091549.GA7587@SDF.ORG>
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On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 09:15:49AM +0000, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 03:11:36AM -0500, Mike Sanders wrote: > > Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > > > hello, > > > still not given up on using mutt 1.5.23 on my freebsd 10 system. > > > a bit of experimentation with a lot of failures has led me to > > > believe that using a mutt compiled without ssl/sasl support but > > > used in combination with ssmtp might be good enough for me. > > > > > > does anyone have any experience running mutt with ssmtp? > > > if yes, may i know if it works and if it works well enough? :) > > > > You can of course compile mutt from ports with builtin smtp support... > > > > Or, if you insist on external smtp, try [m]smtp which is > > made specifically for mutt. My instructions using gmail > > are here: > > > > <http://freebsd.hypermart.net/msmtp.html>; > > > > In any event, you most likely still need ssl/tls. > > mike, that's a nice article. > will give it a shot and see how it goes. > > btw, i tried going with the mutt in ports, but there were so many > dependencies, and there were so many downloads (on my limited > bandwidth connection), that i gave up. whoa, msmtp depends on a lot of stuff, perl, gettext, etc. the whole download exceeds my daily quota of bandwidth. giving up again... :( my mail relay and host is gandi.net which requires authentication for mail fetching as well as sending. can a combination of mailx, fetchmail and ssmtp be made to work well in my scenario? (i used to be a heavy mailx user before). ~mayuresh
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