[ILUG] Mutt & remote pop & smtp servers

[John P. Looney]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:57:39AM +0100, Dave Neary mentioned:
> I'm stuck in Netscape mail here, because I can't figure out how to use
> mutt with no local mailspool, a remote pop server, and no local install
> of sendmail (using a remote smtp server).
> This is all pretty easy to get around with netscape mail - the only
> problem is that I hate netscape mail. I presume it's possible to do this
> with mutt - does anyone know if that's the case, and if so how?

 I don't think you really want to. Although mutt can be configured to use
a POP server as a folder, it's best that you don't do it. If it was an
IMAP one...that's different. Mutt rocks at that.

 Also, mutt isn't an MTA. So you are going to have to install sendmail
locally, and set it to send mail to your upstream MTA, or the destination
MTAs.

 But, if you want to, you can set your mailspool to be;
      pop://username@popserver[:port]/

 Thats the mutt-1.3 syntax - which has better POP-as-a-folder support.

Kate

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