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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:55:54PM +0100, Mick wrote |
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> I appreciate that this is/was the starting point of mutt, but over |
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> the years I understand that mutt has added smtp and is able to use |
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> IMAP or POP servers directly. So, am I right to assume that it is |
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> not only a simple file reader any more. |
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I did say I'm a long time user of mutt ;) I didn't realize that it has |
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added smtp. |
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> Are you sure about this? I do not have sendmail installed, but |
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> do have ssmtp. There are symlinks from sendmail to ssmtp, so that |
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> various programs that call sendmail can eventually use ssmtp to send |
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> out their messages: |
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> $ ls -la /usr/sbin/sendmail |
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> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jul 9 2011 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> ssmtp |
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I get ssmtp symlinks to... |
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/usr/bin/sendmail |
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/usr/sbin/sendmail |
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/usr/lib64/sendmail |
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> BTW, I have configured ssmpt to send out messages from root (cron |
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> job results) through Gmail, using my gmail account credentials. |
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> Will I need to alter this to be able to send out messages from mutt |
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> through different smtp relays? |
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I have one main machine at home, and I *DON'T* want daemons mailing |
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stuff out all over the place, so my problem is quite different from |
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yours. I think that daemons *EXPECT* a file or symlink called sendmail |
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to accept their email. If you want daemons sending log mails, then you |
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need something that emulates sendmail. |
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> Another question: how do you manage your address book? |
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> I would need email address autocompletion of some sort |
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The file ~/.mutt/.aliases is where addresses are stored. E.g. the line |
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for this mailing list is... |
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alias gentoo gentoo-user@l.g.o (Gentoo Users List) |
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I hit "m" for "mail compose". When prompted for "To:", I type in... |
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gen |
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...and hit {TAB}, which gives "gentoo". This is replaced with... |
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gentoo-user@l.g.o (Gentoo Users List) |
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> and I would also need it to be able to pull in the appropriate public |
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> gpg or S/MIME key for the intended recipient and my corresponding |
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> private key(s) depending on the account that I am sending from. |
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I don't do PGP, so I'm not able to answer that question. Here's |
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something from the mutt manual that might be what you're looking for... |
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http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-3.html#ss3.19 |
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> 3.19 Choosing the PGP key of the recipient |
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> Usage: pgp-hook pattern keyid |
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> When encrypting messages with PGP, you may want to associate a certain |
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> PGP key with a given e-mail address automatically, either because |
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> the recipient's public key can't be deduced from the destination |
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> address, or because, for some reasons, you need to override the |
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> key Mutt would normally use. The pgp-hook command provides a method |
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> by which you can specify the ID of the public key to be used when |
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> encrypting messages to a certain recipient. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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