pine

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 06:19 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 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.

Please explain how your statement relates to my posting about mutt
not needing sendmail, after all you're citing me.

Thanks
  Siggy
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