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On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 09:39:11PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 01:49:47PM +0100, Mick wrote |
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> > I would be grateful if some kind soul guided my hand on configuring |
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> > mutt to behave like ... errm ... kmail! O_o |
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> |
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> Hi; a long-time mutt-user here. The authoritative source for info is |
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> http://www.mutt.org/ You can subscribe to their mailing list. They |
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> also have the comp.mail.mutt newsgroup. |
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> First, let's look at what mutt *ISN'T*. It's not a singing-dancing |
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> all-inclusive "integrated" monstrosity. It reads email, writes email, |
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> and hands it off to your local MTA for delivery. In addition to mutt I |
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> also need "getmail" (or equivalant), procmail, and "ssmtp" (or |
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> equivalant). And the organization of my inboxes controls mutt, not visa |
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> versa. My setup here at home... |
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> I can receive email from 3 sources... |
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> my personal domain MX |
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> my Google account |
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> my ADSL ISP |
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> my emergency backup dialup account |
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> I use maildir format storage. I run a script that calls getmail for |
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> each account. getmail passes the emails to procmail, which passes the |
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> emails to the appropriate inboxes. I set up a separate inbox for each |
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> mailing last or group that I belong to. |
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> |
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> mutt reads the email. It "sends" to ssmtp, which is a very simplified |
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> sendmail. All it does is push the email out the door to my ISP's MTA, |
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> which does the real work. I dislike only one thing about ssmtp. It |
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> *INSISTS* on installing "sendmail" symlinks in 3 or 4 different |
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> locations, all pointing back to /usr/sbin/ssmtp. My most embarressing |
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> moment as a user was when a chatty daemon started sending a bunch of |
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> stuff to "root@" my ISP. I did not appreciate that. After that, I |
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> tightened down what stuff gets sent where by daemons, and set up a |
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> script that wipes the symlinks. I have to rerun it after each ssmtp |
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> update. |
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> -- |
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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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Hi, |
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New mutt user here. I'm curious as to why you are using ssmtp, mutt can |
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talk SMTP directly. That simplifies thing as well regarding the |
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"sendmail" symlinks. |
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