Hi Mikko,
Thank you for your prompt reply. The information you supplied was excellent.
I think i'm gonna give the following combination a try:
- Fetchmail
- Procmail
- Mutt
- MasqMail
I checked out the MasqMail website and it looks just like the utility I need to
get my mail going the way I want it. Then, i'll be able to explore all the ins
and outs of Mutt.
Again, many thanks!
Parker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sat, 02 Sep 2000:
> > I need some advice on how to properly configure Mutt on my machine.
>
> Well, you've written to the right place. :-)
>
> > First of all, I can't figure out how to change the display Email address
> > from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" on the messages I
> > send out.
>
> Well, there's several ways to affect what Mutt puts in the From header.
> For you, the best is probably to just tell Mutt exactly what address
> you want to use, with:
>
> set from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> set realname="My name"
>
> Note that this only works in Mutt 1.2 and later. If you have 1.0 or
> earlier, you have to use the my_hdr command (which does work in 1.2
> too, BTW):
>
> my_hdr From: Your Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> There's some differences in what those two commands do, but the
> differences won't affect you unless you want to use more than one
> address in your outgoing emails. And oh, of course if you don't
> have 1.2, then you have to use my_hdr.
>
> Oh, in case you don't know yet, all Mutt configuration directives go
> into the .muttrc file in your home directory. :-)
>
> > Also, sendmail takes care of sending my emails but, for security
> > reasons, I thought i'd configure Mutt to connect to my ISP's SMTP server
> > and shutdown sendmail altogether.
>
> Good idea, to shut down sendmail if you don't need it. And in your
> setup it really isn't needed.
>
> However, Mutt doesn't know how to talk to a remote mail server. So it
> can't send email to your ISP's mail server directly. All it knows is
> to run a program which then takes care of mail delivery. On most unix
> systems that's sendmail, but that is really rather overkill for dialup
> system. I recommend getting a mail delivery program which has been
> designed for dialup use. I know of three: MasqMail, sSMTP, and
> nullmailer. Links to all three can be found at the Mutt site, on the
> Links page. I've personally only tried sSMTP which is dead simple,
> but it's also very limited which is why I hesitate to recommend it (you
> can't specify the envelope sender address, which can lead to
> problems...). But I have no experience with MasqMail or nullmailer, so
> I don't know if they are easy or good.
>
> As for fetchmail requiring sendmail (or a local mail server), that's the
> default configuration. However you can also specify a program which
> will take care of delivering the mail. Telling fetchmail to use
> something like procmail or maildrop directly will bypass the need for a
> mail server. As an additional bonus of this setup, you can get your
> incoming mail filtered with procmail/maildrop rules. You don't have to
> use any filtering rules to begin with, but you'd be already running a
> program that's capable of filtering should you want it later.
>
> > I remember reading somewhere in the documentation that
> > Mutt can retrieve my mail from my POP account. However, does sendmail
> > need to be running to handle incoming mail properly?
>
> Mutt does have very simple POP support, but it's actually recommended
> that people use fetchmail. Mutt's POP support is very basic, and you
> won't be able to filter the incoming emails in any way. It does not
> need sendmail installed.
>
> > Ideally, I'd like to get Mutt configured so that I can start using it
> > and in time, get to know it better. It looks like a pretty capable mail
> > client.
>
> That's the best way. There's some rather good example .muttrc files on
> the net, looking at them should give you ideas and explain what things
> are commonly set, and so on. (Telsa's .muttrc is very good for this.
> :-)
>
> > Any ideas on the best way to setup Mutt on a standalone linux machine
> > using an external POP account? Any suggestions are welcome.
>
> The above describes how I would do it. Use fetchmail to download the
> emails, pass them directly to procmail or maildrop, and let that do the
> actual delivery. For sending mail out, use a dialup MTA (mail server),
> I've listed three I know of above.
>
> I hope this helps,
> Mikko
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