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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:41:05 +0100 (CET)
From: Marcos Lorenzo <marcos AT it DOT uc3m DOT es>
To: Eduardo Chappa <chappa AT math DOT washington DOT edu>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: sending mail with pine
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Eduardo Chappa <chappa AT math DOT washington DOT edu> wrote [Nov 12 -0800]

   EC > *** Marcos Lorenzo (marcos AT it DOT uc3m DOT es) wrote today:
   EC >
   EC > :) I installed pine and I tried to send a test e-mail and I got pine
   EC > :) completely blocked. I believe pine wants some features that ssmtp
   EC > :) doesn't have.
   EC > :)
   EC > :) I did ln -s /usr/sbin/ssmtp /usr/sbin/sendmail, but I'm not sure If
   EC > :) this is right.
   EC > :)
   EC > :) Is there any document on how to send mail with pine?
   EC >
   EC > Hola Marcos,
   EC >
   EC >   I've always had a direct connection to an smtp server, and that's the
   EC > way I've sent mail. Try to see if adding the name of the smtp server you
   EC > want to use to the smtp-server variable in your .pinerc works. You may
   EC > need to add it in the form
   EC >
   EC > smtp-server = name.smtp.server/user=yourid
   EC >
   EC > if it needs authentication, or if the id of your smtp server is different
   EC > than the account name you have in cygwin.
   EC >
   EC >   Let me know if this works or not.

Yeah! it really works. Thanks a lot.


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