Sending mail via ISP's smtp server

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Sat Jan 17 13:39:27 EST 2004


there is a slackware package for exim floating around somewhere. I may 
even have a copy here.
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:44:24PM -0500, Garrett 
Klein wrote:
> Here's the big thing though... I've never compiled an MTA from 
> scratch, let alone write a configuration file for one, and am thus a 
> little nervous about trying to set up Exim.On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 
> 12:10:45AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 04:45:26PM -0600, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
> > > Not to my knowledge.  Mutt will still call sendmail to do the actual 
> > > transporting of the mail.
> > > 
> > Yes, I vaguely remember asking on the mutt list once if one could do
> > that and they said "no!"  mutt calls sendmail directly - not via
> > TCP/IP but by directly spawning the process.  In fact, in order to use
> > exim like we do, we need to have a program out there called 'sendmail'
> > that mutt uses.  I just have a symbolic link from exim to sendmail.
> > 
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