Mutt and Gmail

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Mon Oct 27 11:41:17 EDT 2008 

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I never got therror concerning a mak database for exim.  I looked in
the README files under the /usr/share/doc/exim4 for my instructions.
Sorry, but right now I forget what I used to configure it; I suppose
it was dpkg-reconfigure.  Sorry, I'm new to Debian so am still
bouncing off the walls a bit.  I was a slackware user for over ten
years so am more used to editing strait files.  I didn't find the docs
to be all that confusing though.  In fact, one of the options in the
config script enables me to hide the local machine name from my
outgoing addresses and smart host over to my main mail server for non
gmail activities.

As for configuring exim to have two different smart hosts depending on
what from address was used, that goes way over my head and I doubt any
debconf scripts cover that.  Plus AFAIK, exim doesn't handle ssl/tls
encryption so that's why the need for either msmtp or mutt's internal
smtp support.  Both of these latter items support gmail.  In fact, it
is just recent that I ran into the situation that started this thread
and that is mutt can't find any authenticators now when I use the
internal smtp support but I can get them through msmtp OK.  Mutt's
smtp support works great on my laptop which is still running under
slackware 12.0.

Chuck, I don't use fetchmail or getmail on this box.  I use Gmail's
IMAP support directly in Mutt.  It works pretty good too.

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:47:15AM -0500, Alonzo wrote:
> Hello chuck,
>
> I would like to use my AIM address for sending mail, however... i'm not  
> exactly sure how to configure exim4 using debconf. I'm confused with the  
> questions. so I've removed it for now until I have better documentation.
> Also when I start up debian lenny, it complains about send mailno make  
> database that i have to build it by hand. Anyone know what that's about?
>
> Alonzo
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at ftml.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 4:16 AM
> Subject: Re: Mutt and Gmail
>
>
>> Steve,
>>
>> I use mutt too, but have always let it hand the outgoing stuff off to
>> exim4 for handling. Exim4 spools the outgoing items, so it you often
>> send with attachments, you don't have to wait while your MUA completes
>> the send. You also have /etc/email-addresses and /etc/aliases to help
>> adjusting your return address and routing your arrivals. If you have
>> not already done so, you might want to consider getmail to replace
>> fetchmail, if you are using it.
>>
>> Chuck
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 08:26:46PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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>>> I looked at the exim logs and gmail was not mentioned anywhere;
>>> besides, I have mutt configured to go to gmail directly.  These later
>>> versions of mutt allow for direct smtp with appropriate ssl/tls
>>> encryption.  I don't know, but I fell back to using msmtp for the
>>> transport functions like I used to use and that works fine.  I wonder
>>> if it's got to do with the way mutt was configured/compiled for debian
>>> or what.  At least it works now even if I have to use an external
>>> component to move the mail.  Thanks for the idea though.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 02:56:46PM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
>>> > Steve,
>>> >
>>> > You are probably using exim4 to send your mail to a smart host. Look
>>> > at:
>>> >
>>> > /etc/exim4/passwd.client
>>> >
>>> > Chuck
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:52:45AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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>>> > > I've had mutt set up to work with gmail for some time now and all and
>>> > > all, it has worked quite well.  But lately after installing Debian
>>> > > some time after that I keep getting an error when trying to send mail
>>> > > to the gmail smtp server.
>>> > >
>>> > > No authenticators available
>>> > >
>>> > > I've checked out all the ssl and tls related packages; I can read 
>>> > > mail
>>> > > from gmail but I just can't seem to send anymore.  Are there any
>>> > > mutt/gmail users out there who might be able to shed a light on this
>>> > > matter?
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