[wellylug] sendmail - enough for today!

Centurion Computer Technology Ltd centurion at paradise.net.nz
Mon Aug 25 10:11:51 NZST 2003


On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 07:08, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> 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.

Actually it will forward mail to an smtp server, but not the
functionality we want.  My mistake.
> 
> -----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.
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> 	Daniel Reurich
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