Re: email management under netbsd : any simple strategies?

[Roy Bixler <rcbixler%nyx.net@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 09:59:15PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 06:18:35PM +0000, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> > hello,
> > 
> > i have been using mutt under various linux based systems as
> > well as under freebsd.
> > 
> > looks like the mutt under netbsd (via pkgin) doesn't support
> > smtp (yet).
> > 
> > may i know what kind of strategy mutt aficionados use to get
> > mutt working well under netbsd?
> 
> I just setup postfix to relay everything to the mail server.
> then mutt can use /usr/sbin/sendmail

"relayhost" is the name of the main.cf parameter, I believe.

Alternatively, I also played around with something like "msmtp" or
"ssmtp" (available as packages) and "mutt" can be configured to call
those instead.

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