Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 19 Jun 2000:
> Hmmm... I use Qmail as my SMTP server on my server, but not on this
> machine. Maybe I should use Qmail on this machine also...
Maybe, no arguments from me. :-) (I use qmail at home too...)
> Is there no way to get mutt to talk to sendmail in the same way as
> Pine?
Not directly, Mutt doesn't talk SMTP at all. What you need to do (if
you really want to relay the mail over SMTP somewhere) is get a program
such as sSMTP or one of the other alternatives, and use that for mail
delivery then. sSMTP simply takes an email message as standard input
and sends it to some pre-configured SMTP host, nothing more. You can
find the link to it from the Mutt home page.
> 1.2 is the devel version, no?
No, it's the latest stable release. Although 1.2.1 is expected "soon".
> Hmmm... I think I want to get 1.0.1
> working properly first... =)
As you wish, your choice, although I would recommend 1.2 as it has a
number of useful features (including $envelope_from) in addition to some
bugfixes.
> How can I pass the active email address
> to the $sendmail variable? Ie. sometimes I send as
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and sometimes I send as
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Obviously I don't want the Return-Path to be
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I send from the admin address? Is
> there a variable like, say, $email I can put in there like:
>
> sendmail="/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -oem -f$email"
No, you can't use a Mutt variable like that, unfortunately (the variable
*would* be $from in Mutt 1.2, nothing like that in Mutt 1.0.1, but you
still can't refer to other variables in 1.2...)
So you're stuck to setting $sendmail directly in whatever place also
changes your From header address. Again, in Mutt 1.2 you wouldn't need
to do that since you could use $envelope_from. :-)
Hope this helps,
Mikko
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