Send/receive mail in text mode in ubuntu

[Rashkae]

Sauro Cesaretti wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm sorry if it could be a bit OT.
> 
> I've just configured mutt and fetchmail to receive mail under ubuntu and I
> used nbsmtp to send mail using mutt as well.
> After that when I tried to retrieve the messages with fetchmail, it gave me
> a problem and it said that it can't connect
> To 127.0.0.1/25 and it said that it couldn't find the smtp server in
> localhost.
> Do you know which could be the problem?
> Could it depend on firewall?
> or should I install other packages?
> 

You'll need a local mail delivery mechanism... Just your luck, Ubuntu is 
about the only Linux distro that doesn't include any by default.

I would suggest installing Postfix package.

Mutt can also then use this instead of nbsmtp, but since that one is 
already configured to forward mail to your ISP mail server, it's 
probably best not to rock that boat.