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Re: Using mutt to sendmail via remote SMTP


On 2008-08-03, Spiro Trikaliotis <an-cygwin@spiro.trikaliotis.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> * On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 04:56:56PM +0700 Bayu Adiwibowo wrote:
>> I using thunderbird to send this mail, recently i found that I can run
>> cygwin with my USB, so I wonder how to use cygwin MUA like mutt to
>> sending mail via gmail. As far in my research mutt look for sendmail
>> program in exim or other smtp program running in localhost to sending
>> mail, and this is not suite to my purpose.
>
> Yes, that's the way mutt works. mutt still uses the distinction between
> MUA (mail user agent, that is, mutt itself) and MTA (mail transfer
> agent, that is, something like sendmail, exim, and-so-on).
>
>> Maybe anyone in this list can point me a way to make mutt sending mail
>> with remote SMTP server?
>
> You need to install an MtA like sendmail, exim, postfix, or similar. You
> may, however, use a very simple one like ssmtp (it is available with
> cygwin). This might be your easiest solution.
>
> HTH,
>    Spiro.
>

I use mutt with exim ( via remote smtp ) and it works really good.
You can choose ssmtp as substitute for exim.

R 


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