Re: MUTA

From: David Fleck (david.fleck_at_mchsi.com)
Date: 03/23/04

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    Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 07:11:04 -0600 (CST)
    To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
    
    

    On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote:
    > mutt or pine are CLI e-mail programs (I prefer mutt as you can see
    > from the headers of this message, but pine is possibly a bit
    > friendlier to the beginner): both of those have the capability to read
    > mail out of a POP mailbox. However, they expect to have a local
    > sendmail (or qmail or exim or postfix or other MTA) instance that they
    > can inject e-mail into for sending messages.
    [...]

    Not necessarily - Pine, at least, can be configured to use a remote smtp
    server:

    (from my .pinerc file):
    # List of SMTP servers for sending mail. If blank: Unix Pine uses
    sendmail.
    smtp-server=mail.isp.com/novalidate-cert

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    David Fleck
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