* Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-05-23 00:07 +0200: > 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.
There's also a patched version of Mutt around that's also able to do NNTP (News). _Un_official .debs for a recent development version are available from deb ftp://ftp.links2linux.de/pub/packman/debian/ stable/ppc/ (there are also .debs for unstable and stable for PPC; add the above line into your /etc/apt/sources.list and "apt-get update; apt-get install mutt"). www.mutt.org has a lot of examples of muttrc files, but the default debian configuration is a good start. > Therefore I suppose other programs are needed to make it work (think of > something hostile like exim, send-/fetch-/mail and so on). Exactly, you need an MTA (like exim), and for example fetchmail to receive mail. Also consider procmail, which delivers messages to specified mailboxes. Mutt is also able to connect to POP and IMAP servers directly (see the documentation), but depends on an MTA to send mail. > Could someone show me how I could configure e.g. exim to reach my ISP and my > smtp and pop3 servers ? Try eximconfig, choose option 2 (smarthost). Maybe ask again. For fetchmail, you'd use something like # file ~/.fetchmailrc, permissions 0600 poll your.pop.host.it with protocol POP3, with options user "yourusername" there with password "secret" is vittorio here keep fetchall # supposed vittorio is your account name on your own machine # keep will leave the mail on the server... for testing... # fetchall will fetch all messages, seen or not... for testing... I hope this helps. A. B. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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