GUI mail client recommendations ...

Gerard Seibert gerard at seibercom.net
Mon May 8 23:43:38 UTC 2006


guru wrote:

> El día Monday, May 08, 2006 a las 03:23:30PM +0200, albi escribió:
> 
> > On Mon, 8 May 2006 07:14:05 -0600
> > "Bryan Curl" <bc3910 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > mutt sends mail as usual. Then,
> > > fetchmail -S smtp.myispmailserver.net
> > > 
> > > The mail bounces from myispmailserver.net with an error like
> > > me at walnut.bc.net (my private domain) is urecognized domain. (exact
> > > message escapes me at this time)
> > > 
> > > The question is how do I tell mutt to send all mail out through '
> > > smtp.myispmailserver.net'?
> > > Or maybe I need to configure sendmail or fetchmail differntly?
> > 
> > sometimes i use mutt, this is the part in my .muttrc to get the 
> > from-address right :
> > 
> > set sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -falbi at scii.nl -oi -oem"
> 
> Of course, you have to configure 'fetchmail' (normaly done
> in a file ~/.fetchmailrc) for fetching and sendmail for
> outgoing mail; in the M4-based rules files to generate the
> sendmail's submit.cf you may use something like
> 
> 	define(`SMART_HOST', `[smtp.myispmailserver.net]')dnl
> 
> to put all outbound mail to your ISP.
> 
> 	matthias
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OK, but suppose the SMTP server was GMail; i.e. smtp.gmail.com which
uses SSL on port 465 I believe. Is it possible to configure Sendmail to
use that in the `SMART_HOST' setting?


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Gerard Seibert
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