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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mutt configuration advice
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 12:55:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201305281256.47584.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130528013911.GC18963@waltdnes.org>

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On Tuesday 28 May 2013 02:39:11 Walter Dnes wrote:

>  First, let's look at what mutt *ISN'T*.  It's not a singing-dancing
> all-inclusive "integrated" monstrosity.  It reads email, writes email,
> and hands it off to your local MTA for delivery.  In addition to mutt I
> also need "getmail" (or equivalant), procmail, and "ssmtp" (or
> equivalant).  And the organization of my inboxes controls mutt, not visa
> versa.  

I appreciate that this is/was the starting point of mutt, but over the years 
I understand that mutt has added smtp and is able to use IMAP or POP servers 
directly.  So, am I right to assume that it is not only a simple file reader 
any more.

I have successfully used it with an IMAP server and was able to send and 
receive, but I'm not entirely sure how to replicate my Gmail settings from 
Kmail (it errors out, crashes, etc.)


> My setup here at home...
> 
>   I can receive email from 3 sources...
> my personal domain MX
> my Google account
> my ADSL ISP
> my emergency backup dialup account
> 
>   I use maildir format storage.  I run a script that calls getmail for
> each account.  getmail passes the emails to procmail, which passes the
> emails to the appropriate inboxes.  I set up a separate inbox for each
> mailing last or group that I belong to.
> 
>   mutt reads the email.  It "sends" to ssmtp, which is a very simplified
> sendmail.  All it does is push the email out the door to my ISP's MTA,
> which does the real work.  I dislike only one thing about ssmtp.  It
> *INSISTS* on installing "sendmail" symlinks in 3 or 4 different
> locations, all pointing back to /usr/sbin/ssmtp.  My most embarressing
> moment as a user was when a chatty daemon started sending a bunch of
> stuff to "root@" my ISP.  I did not appreciate that.  After that, I
> tightened down what stuff gets sent where by daemons, and set up a
> script that wipes the symlinks.  I have to rerun it after each ssmtp
> update.

Are you sure about this?  I do not have sendmail installed, but do have ssmtp.  
There are symlinks from sendmail to ssmtp, so that various programs that call 
sendmail can eventually use ssmtp to send out their messages:

$ ls -la /usr/sbin/sendmail 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jul  9  2011 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> ssmtp

BTW, I have configured ssmpt to send out messages from root (cron job results) 
through Gmail, using my gmail account credentials.  Will I need to alter this 
to be able to send out messages from mutt through different smtp relays?


Another question:  how do you manage your address book?

I would need email address autocompletion of some sort and I would also need 
it to be able to pull in the appropriate public gpg or S/MIME key for the 
intended recipient and my corresponding private key(s) depending on the 
account that I am sending from.
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Regards,
Mick

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-28 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-27 12:49 [gentoo-user] mutt configuration advice Mick
2013-05-27 14:28 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-05-27 16:55   ` Mick
2013-05-27 17:04     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-05-28  1:39 ` Walter Dnes
2013-05-28  1:50   ` staticsafe
2013-05-28 22:50     ` Walter Dnes
2013-05-28 11:55   ` Mick [this message]
2013-05-28 23:20     ` Walter Dnes
2013-06-01  8:20 ` [gentoo-user] " Steven J. Long

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