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From: "John P. Looney" <valen@tuatha.org>
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 12:06:18PM +0100, Philip Reynolds mentioned:
> John P. Looney's [valen@tuatha.org] 11 lines of wisdom included:
> >  OK, Mutt uses sendmail to deliver mail...
> > 
> >  How can I get it to deliver via a Postfix box with SMTP auth enabled ?
> 
> Mutt interacts with smtpdaemon or something like that doesn't it?
> 
> Can mutt interact directly with SMTP server with authentication
> capabilities? I don't think it can. 
> 
> Surely you can just run a mailserver on your own machine and send
> mail using it? 

 Hmm. Yeah, mutt sorta calls the sendmail program directly. But I thought
it would be very crap if the auth details (username, password) had to be
hardcoded into the sendmail.cf (and damned if I can work out how to do
that anyway).

Kate


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