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Sendmail:

Before version 1.5.17, you were required to configure a mail transport agent, like sendmail. For old time's sake, and for those using older versions of mutt, this is how to do so. Provided sendmail, postfix, qmail, or another SMTP mail sending program has been installed and configured on your system, simply tell mutt where to find the sendmail program. In most cases, sendmail is located at /usr/sbin/sendmail, so the following line should suffice. Postfix even provides a simlink at that location to deal with mail programs expecting to find sendmail there. So once you know where to find sendmail, put a line in your .muttrc file that tells mutt where to hand off written mail for sending, as follows: set sendmail=/usr/sbin/sendmail

However, installing and configuring Postfix or Sendmail is not fun in an age when any self-respecting ISP requires authentication to stem the spamflood, so choosing a distribution that does this for you, like SUSE, will take a lot of pain out the process (Ubuntu users, you are out of luck, change distros or learn how to configure sendmail). If you're just a casual emailer instead of a systems administrator, and just need a simple and easy way to get your mail to your ISP, perhaps a full-blown Postfix configuration is overkill. There are several alternatives created for the likes of mutt users who just need an easy way to send mail to their ISP, and nothing fancier than that.


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Randall Wood 2009-12-02