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Scott Scriven wrote:

> There are a few things I need to configure to get mutt working
> right -- such as getting an MTA which works well for a dialup
> account.

I use Exim, which is fairly easy to get up and running. Another
alternative would be a simple smtp client which just forwards all mail
to a smart host. ssmtp is one I've heard mentioned, and I wrote a simple
one myself earlier.  (I don't know why, let me know if you want a copy
of it. It's about 8K of C.)

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Scott Scriven (toykeeper@cheerful.com) wrote at Sat, 20 Nov 1999 21:17:15 GMT:
> Hi..  I'm a Pine refugee (don't shoot me! :).
>
> There are a few things I need to configure to get mutt working
> right -- such as getting an MTA which works well for a dialup
> account.
>
> Fetchmail + procmail work well to receive messages, and I
> previously used Pine's simple MTA to send messages to a
> smarthost.  Since mutt doesn't have this, which MTA should I
> set up my system with, and how do I need to configure it?
>
> I don't want to use one which processes mail in batches through
> cron, but that's about all I know.  I'll need it to allow
> "fake" information in the headers, too, since my From address
> (below) won't match my hostname..

There are many alternatives. I use sendmail because it's very configurable. But
it isn't considered the safest one. Alternatives are:

- postfix
- exim
- qmail

Maarten
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