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Date:      Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:04:38 +0100
From:      V.Dormeyer@t-online.de (Volker Dormeyer)
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        rjoseph@nwlink.com
Subject:   Re: sending mail with mutt
Message-ID:  <20000216210438.A2343@t-online.de>
In-Reply-To: <38AAE479.A5B96EBB@nwlink.com>; from R Joseph Wright on Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 09:55:05AM -0800
References:  <38AAE479.A5B96EBB@nwlink.com>

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Hi,

On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 09:55:05AM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote:
> I've been experimenting with various mailers recently.  I decided I
> don't like pine, so I switched to mutt. I'm using fetchmail to retrieve
> messages.  I haven't found a way to send messages with mutt.  With pine
> it was just a matter of adding my isp's smtp server to the config file. 
> Is there a similar way to do it with mutt, or do I need to configure
> something with sendmail?

you can't do that with mutt. You need to configure an MTA like sendmail
or sSMTP. For more details, take a look at http://www.mutt.org there
you will find a FAQ section which will give some background about SMTP
servers and so on.

hope this helps,
-Volker-

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