[wellylug] sendmail - enough for today!

[Jamie Dobbs]

Fetchmail is a mail retrieval tool only, it cannot send mail and relies upon
the local MTA for message delivery to a local mailbox.
To send mail you need something like sendmail running locally or to define
whatever mail application you use to use your ISPs SMTP server.

-----Original Message-----
From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz] On Behalf Of Centurion Computer
Technology Ltd
Sent: Monday, 25 August 2003 6:43 a.m.
To: wellylug
Subject: Re: [wellylug] sendmail - enough for today!

> 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.
-- 
	Daniel Reurich
	Centurion Computer Technolgy Limited
	
	Ph: (04) 565 1832
	    (025) 374 387
	    
	email: centurion at paradise.net.nz



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