Mutt Basic

[Derek Broughton]

ben darby wrote:

> * Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Peter Garrett wrote:
>> 
>> > Mutt is only a Mail User Agent, not an SMTP program.
>> > Mutt needs helpers.
>> > People make it more complicated than necessary in their
>> > howtos.
>> 
>> <rant>
>> _Mutt_ makes it more complicated than necessary, by insisting that
>> because it isn't an SMTP _program_ it shouldn't be an SMTP _client_.
>> 
>> Really, if you have problems getting mutt to work, you should just give
>> up
>> on it.  It isn't worth the hassle.
>> </rant>
> 
> no longer the case as of 1.5.15 when the esmtp patch was integrated, now
> it just requires smtp_url to be set
> 
> set smtp_url=smtp://user:pass@mail.server:port/

Oh joy!  I had the impression from my days of debating this on the exim list
that mutt developers would _never_ accept this.  I guess the dinosaurs
reach extinction eventually :-)
-- 
derek