Sending mail via ISP's smtp server

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Garrett,

If you want to stick with sendmail to direct mutt mail to your
ISP's smtp server, the steps are actually quite simple. Do this:

As root: Open the file /etc/mail/sendmail.cf with a text editor
you know how to use;

Find a line with only two characters on it, "DS" (in caps);

Add the name of your ISP's smpt server to that line immediately
after the "S", no spaces;

Close the file, saving the changes;

Then, still as root, restart the sendmail daemon by typing this
at a prompt:

/etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail restart

That will do the trick. But you have to ask mutt to strip off
your host name, and I cannot help you with that, since I am a
(happy) Pine user.

Chuck


On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, 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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