Sending mail via ISP's smtp server

Tom and Esther Ward tward1978 at earthlink.net
Sat Jan 17 15:09:22 EST 2004


Perhaps try postfix. I find it a little easier than other mta's to
configure.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Garrett Klein" <kleins at iquest.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: Sending mail via ISP's smtp server


> 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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