set SMTP server for mutt -- RE: send e-mail without use sendmail

[Matt Domsch]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:19:09PM +1100, Lux Zhang wrote:
>    Hi,
>    my ISP request "From" and smtp server be set in order to send out email.
>    my question is that
>    how to set the "from'header and 'SMTP' server for mutt?

Two parts.  In ~/.muttrc, put:

set from="Lux Zhang <yuanlux at gmail.com>"


And mutt really does require you to be running some form of Mail
Transport Agent, such as sendmail, locally.   A minimal sendmail, with
a smarthost defined to point at your ISP's smtp server, is all you
need.

On sendmail, the easist way to do this is to set an outgoing server in
/etc/mail/mailertable with a line such as:

.   smtp:[smtp-server.your-isp.com]

and restart sendmail.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux