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Re: [PLUG] Configuring Mutt or another email program
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> Another note: mutt has IMAP support builtin, but in keeping with the
> Unix philosophy (of each program doing one thing and doing it extremely
> well instead of monolithic programs that do many things, but not
> necessarily well), it doesn't do POP or SMTP. Setting up an MTA can be
> an adventure in and of itself, but I hear that fetchmail is pretty
> straightforward to set up.
mutt does indeed have support for POP3, however it lacks support
for sending mail via SMTP. If you're stuck on a host that doesn't
have an MTA installed, you may be interested in the ssmtp package,
at <ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/mail/mta/>
-mct
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