names for devices and can I make mutt receive and send mail without exim?

[Steve Holmes]

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Yes, even though you are not running a mail server.  You really need
to run sendmail, exim, or some other MTA because several linux utilits
use sendmail to "get the mail out" from your system.  Mutt relies on
the external MTA for sure and if by any chance you should run or
develop some automated scripts that might mail a message some place,
you could include the 'mail' command in it and I'm quite sure it also
calls upon sendmail or exim or whoever to send out the mail also.

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 10:14:34AM -0700, Sean M McMahon wrote:
> Are you saying it's better to have exim even though I'm not using this 
> machine as a real email server?  The whole mutt thing has been a little 
> confusing to me because it does say on mutt.org, supports imap and pop3. 
> Thanks for the tip on device naming.
> Sean
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thomas Stivers <stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org>
> Sent by: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> 07/17/2004 07:30 AM
> Please respond to "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
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>         Subject:        Re: names for devices and can I make mutt receive and send mail without 
> exim?
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> On Fri, Jul 16 2004 at 05:13:43PM -0700, Sean M McMahon wrote:
> > My cd rom I think is /cdrom, my root partician and all below it is / in 
> > the harddrive, but how do I save something to my floppy drive?  The 
> second 
> > question is because I want to either  get rid of my mta altogether or 
> have 
> > it only wory about local mail.  If anyone knows of a good mutt tutorial 
> on 
> > how to make it work with pop without using exim, which it's doing now, 
> or 
> > of a better mailer which will do this, let me know.  I figure I don't 
> > really need an mta because I am the user and I'd like to avoid the 
> > security risk.  Sean
> 
> Your cdrom is almost certainly not /cdrom, but is more likely mounted
> there. The actual reference to the device is more likely /dev/hdc,
> /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrom0, or some such. The filesystem on this device can
> be mounted on /cdrom. I say all that to say that you will need to mount
> your floppy to access it. Your floppy device is probably /dev/fd0 and
> you can mount it on /floppy. If a directory called /floppy doesn't exist
> you will need to create it with mkdir as root. You can mount the floppy
> with the command:
> 
> mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
> 
> Now the files on the floppy will all be available in the /floppy
> directory. If there is a line for your floppy drive in the /etc/fstab
> file you can probably shorten the command above to "mount /floppy". An
> important thing to remember is that you need to unmount the floppy
> before removing it to make sure that all changes have been written to
> the disk.
> 
> There are other options for an MTA than exim and the other real MTA's
> which you can use just to send mail from local programs to your ISP's
> smtp server. I don't know which ones are packaged and which ones aren't,
> but there are ssmtp, nullmailer, bsmtp, and probably more I don't know
> about. This will only take care of sending mail, receiving mail with a
> pop server can be handled by mutt directly, but it is really much easier
> to get your MTA working locally at least and using a mail retrieval
> agent like getmail or fetchmail to get your messages from the pop
> server. The mutt designers believe strongly in the one tool for one task
> ideal and designed mutt to only show you your mail and do that well. If
> you really want one program that will handle all of the parts of the
> mail process then pine is what you want. Though when you get tired of
> using pine the mutt community will be happy to have you back *smile*. 
> 
> - -- 
> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
> 
> Thomas Stivers           e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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