Re: Bell Sympatico

Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:
On 2006-10-11, mihai cartoaje <repstsb@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dances With Crows wrote:
On 10 Oct 2006 09:38:58 -0700, mihai cartoaje staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
I am still trying to find a command-line mail agent that works with
Bell Sympatico.

What's wrong with pine/mutt/emacs? As long as the ISP's servers speak
SMTP and POP3/IMAP, there should be no problem with any sensible Mail
User Agent.

pine relays to sendmail. sendmail doesn't work because Bell blocks
direct smtp.

In case it might help, mutt can be configured to send
through an ISP's so-called "smarthost". Install a package
called esmtp and then fix the symlinks in and/or to
/etc/alternatives so you get the 'real' sendmail if you want
it. In the user's $HOME/.muttrc, put the following (without
indentation, and with the obvious email address
substituted):

I have tried esmtp. I added starttls to the configuration file. esmtp
wrote something like "server does not ask for authentication.
proceeding anyway" and did not work. I think that Bell's esmtp server
only asks for authentication after a starttls command, whereas esmtp
was expecting it before.


set sendmail="/usr/bin/esmtp"
set from=fred.flintstone@xxxxxxxxxxx

In the user's $HOME/.esmtprc, put the following (again
without indentation and with substitution):

hostname outboundserver.bedrock.net:25
username "fred.flintstone"
password "fredspassword"

HTH

--
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@xxxxxxxxxxx
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

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