[wellylug] sendmail - enough for today!

[Centurion Computer Technology Ltd]

> Running your own MTA (mail transport agent, like sendmail) without a
> "real" (permanent) domain name is problematic as we've seen.  
> 
> Email programs like Evolution (and most Windows email programs) avoid
> this by only using a remote email server for both sending and receiving.
> 
> I don't use mutt often enough to know if it can be configured to only
> ever talk to a remote mail server (MTA).  I also don't know if that
> would have undesirable side effects (eg, causing a modem to dial out
> frequently -- Windows mail clients typically require express user action
> to send/receive mail, at least by default, to avoid this).
> 
I think the answer lies in fetchmail which is also handling the
collecting of mail, to be configured to send mail through the remote 
smtp server.  I just need to figure out how and also make sure mutt uses
fetchmail to send mail through the remote smtp server.

Regards.
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	Daniel Reurich
	Centurion Computer Technolgy Limited
	
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