X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: r Subject: Re: Using mutt to sendmail via remote SMTP Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 06:27:03 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <489580E8.4050107@gmail.com> <20080803113416.GA30572@trikaliotis.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-112/mm/ao (Win32) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 2008-08-03, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: > Hello, > > * On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 04:56:56PM +0700 Bayu Adiwibowo wrote: >> I using thunderbird to send this mail, recently i found that I can run >> cygwin with my USB, so I wonder how to use cygwin MUA like mutt to >> sending mail via gmail. As far in my research mutt look for sendmail >> program in exim or other smtp program running in localhost to sending >> mail, and this is not suite to my purpose. > > Yes, that's the way mutt works. mutt still uses the distinction between > MUA (mail user agent, that is, mutt itself) and MTA (mail transfer > agent, that is, something like sendmail, exim, and-so-on). > >> Maybe anyone in this list can point me a way to make mutt sending mail >> with remote SMTP server? > > You need to install an MtA like sendmail, exim, postfix, or similar. You > may, however, use a very simple one like ssmtp (it is available with > cygwin). This might be your easiest solution. > > HTH, > Spiro. > I use mutt with exim ( via remote smtp ) and it works really good. You can choose ssmtp as substitute for exim. R -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/