Re: how does mutt send?

From: Rogério Brito (rbrito_at_ime.usp.br)
Date: 11/29/04

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    On Nov 28 2004, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
    > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 02:43:38PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote:
    > > I remember I had a bit of trouble getting mutt to set my "from" address
    > > correctly, eventually I found tthat this works:
    > >
    > > my_hdr From: Sam Watkins <swatkins@fastmail.fm>
    > >
    > > is there specific mutt command to do this?
    >
    > Is it not one? :-)

    Well, at least I use it for all my accounts. Don't really know what the
    original poster wanted, but that's what I use (including in folder-hooks).

    Anyway, let me tell what I do here for other people who may not have read
    the whole thread. Actually, mutt *can* read POP3 and/or IMAP accounts, if
    it is compiled with proper support (such as Debian's).

    In fact, I installed an IMAP server here at my personal computer and have
    mutt read it (I use fetchmail to grab the e-mails from the various accounts
    that I have and procmail+spamassassin to sort the mail to the appropriate
    folders).

    The good thing about having an IMAP server installed is that it serves as
    an "agnostic" interface for many MUA's, which means that I can use
    Mozilla's Thunderbird (or any other GUI MUA) when I feel like it (and I
    usually do, for know how things are improving on the Thunderbird project).

    For sending e-mail, mutt usually calls the sendmail executable, which is
    today more than an executable: it is so standard that one could call it an
    interface, since it is usually provided by many MTA's like qmail, ssmtp,
    postfix, sendmail itself, among others.

    For sending e-mail with mutt, I am currently using a patched qmail
    installation (home-made Debian package with qmail-remote SMTP AUTH patch
    and other recommended patches from qmail.org), but I have msmtp installed
    just in case my stupid ISP has problems relaying my e-mail (I can, then,
    use other accounts for relaying with non-standard ports and encryption
    enabled).

    If one does not want a full MTA installed, I'd say that msmtp is the way to
    go. Quite impressed by its versatility.

    Hope this helps, Rogério Brito. 

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