pine

[Karl F. Larsen]

Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 15:21 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> 
>> As I have said several times in previous replies to your posts: nothing. 
>> I uninstalled exim4 and rkhunter. I may reinstall exim4 because unlike 
>> alpine, mutt requires an mta.
> 
> What you are saying, quoting from mutt docs: 
> 
> | 5. SMTP Support
> |
> | Besides supporting traditional mail delivery through a
> | sendmail-compatible program, mutt supports delivery through SMTP if
> | it was configured and built with --enable-smtp.
> |
> | If the configuration variable $smtp_url is set, mutt will contact
> | the given SMTP server to deliver messages; if it is unset, mutt
> | will use the program specified by $sendmail.
> |
> | For details on the URL syntax, please see Section 1.2, “URL syntax”.
> |
> | The built-in SMTP support supports encryption (the smtps protocol
> | using SSL or TLS) as well as SMTP authentication using SASL. The
> | authentication mechanisms for SASL are specified in
> | $smtp_authenticators defaulting to an empty list which makes mutt
> | try all available methods from most-secure to least-secure.
> 
> Before sending this I'll
> 
>  : set smtp_url="smtp://smtp.winnegan.fake"
> 
> if inclined to compare Received: headers to see it works.
> 
> This is on my mail server running Debian/squezze not Ubuntu.
> Dunno whether Ubuntu built with --enable-smtp.
> 
> Siggy 
> 

	I got alpine to work with IMAP and gmail as you expected. The
configuration file is 4 miles long! I was wrong to even talk about
sendmail or exim. These are not the problem anymore. I already have the
Internet on this computer and a way to reach an smtp server. Sorry I was
dense. But in 1996 I needed sendmail.


73 Karl


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