on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 11:17:22PM +0000, Victor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm accustomed to use graphic email reader such as kmail or balsa. > > Now I find very interesting the opportunity of adopting a console email > reader such as Mutt in terms of memory requirements, quickness and > flexibility. > > But I understand that Mutt is only a mere reader and in its documentation I > haven't found any clue on how to set it up in order to receive & send the > mail. > > Therefore I suppose other programs are needed to make it work (think of > something hostile like exim, send-/fetch-/mail and so on). > > Could someone show me how I could configure e.g. exim to reach my ISP and my > smtp and pop3 servers ?
Have you installed exim? Walking through the postinst configuration
should set it up properly for you. If you need to reconfigure later:
$ dpkg-reconfigure exim
You'll want fetchmail to, er, fetch mail.
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