Mutt,ProcMail,Fetchmail and Sendmail?

[Dennis Ruzeski]

Hi Frank--

Here's what you'll need-

To get your mail, you'll need a pop client. That would be fetchmail. It's a great program that will hit your pop server and put the email in your local Linux mailbox. It's very configurable and easy to use. 

For sending email, you need an SMTP MTA (Mail Transport Agent). Procmail or Sendmail would be good choices. Sendmail is the age-old standard, but procmail is IMHO, a great alternative. Whichever you choose, it will have to pretend to be sending mail as your_name at your_domain.com. Otherwise mail will be returned as coming from an unknown host. It sounds like you'll be using this on a desktop machine, but it's still very important to secure your MTA for no-relay and make sure you're using an up to date version.


Hope this helps! 

--Dennis




-----Original Message-----
From: Frank K [mailto:lnxadmn at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 7:59 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Mutt,ProcMail,Fetchmail and Sendmail?


Hi,
   Just so everyone knows this is frank from
digital-ignorance.com. Im using this email because my
host is playing games with me...Now on to my question

I want to start to use mutt to view,edit,send my
email. However I have never set any of them. I know I
have to have fetchmail get my mail, procmail process
my mail and mutt to read my mail. Im assuming I need
sendmail, well to send my mail. Does anyone have any
great tutorials that they know of to explain each
process to me. I dont want to copy configs because I
want to 'know' what its doing. 

Thanks for the help,
-Frank

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