Hello All,
Since some days I have been going through various docs and sample .muttrcs on the net on how to configure mutt. I got the overall pictire and how set commands are used to set parameters in .muttrc . However it would be great if I could get a sample muttrc file for the following purpose, without any fancy pgp or macro stuff. I plan to use it as a stand alone application to send and receive our group messages using my yahoo pop/smtp server.
Regards,
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On 12/04/06 01:06 +0530, Rony Bill wrote:
Hello All,
Since some days I have been going through various docs and sample .muttrcs on the net on how to configure mutt. I got the overall pictire
Try dotfiles.com http://www.google.com/search?q=muttrc
and how set commands are used to set parameters in .muttrc . However it would be great if I could get a sample muttrc file for the following purpose, without any fancy pgp or macro stuff. I plan to use it as a stand alone application to send and receive our group messages using my yahoo pop/smtp server.
mutt doesn't do smtp.
Devdas Bhagat
Sometime on Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:06:49AM +0530, Rony Bill said:
Hello All,
Since some days I have been going through various docs and sample .muttrcs on the net on how to configure mutt. I got the overall pictire and how set commands are used to set parameters in .muttrc . However it would be great if I could get a sample muttrc file for the following purpose, without any fancy pgp or macro stuff. I plan to use it as a stand alone application to send and receive our group messages using my yahoo pop/smtp server.
You can start from this file, heh http://db.glug-bom.org/lug-authors/anurag/muttrc
If you are coming for GLUG meet on 16th then we'll have a tiny BoF on mutt as well :)
for outgoing emails you just need to install exim/postfix.
Anurag
Anurag wrote:
You can start from this file, heh http://db.glug-bom.org/lug-authors/anurag/muttrc
for outgoing emails you just need to install exim/postfix.
Thanks :) Could you give a brief summary of your email system, like a flow chart, just to get an idea. The problem with muttrc files is that each one is so different from others and there is always some other program used along with it.
For a pop/smtp mail, can you give a step by step flow chart on what to install first, what to configure and what to link with each other. Just a broad picture, not a detailed howto.
Regards,
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On 4/13/06, Rony Bill ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
For a pop/smtp mail, can you give a step by step flow chart on what to install first,
ext pop3 server -> fetchmail -> local smtp server -> /var/spool/mail/username -> procmail -> /home/username/Mail/inbox -> mutt
refer www.symonds.net/~dileep/old/howtos-index.htm
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Sometime on Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 09:48:47PM +0530, Rony Bill said:
Thanks :) Could you give a brief summary of your email system, like a flow chart, just to get an idea. The problem with muttrc files is that each one is so different from others and there is always some other program used along with it.
my setup is much simpler than dileep's. i login to my shell server over ssh and directly send recieve mails from there. occazionally i fetch mails into evolution. but using fetchmail is better solution.
For a pop/smtp mail, can you give a step by step flow chart on what to install first, what to configure and what to link with each other. Just a broad picture, not a detailed howto.
install mutt, postfix, and fetchmail. fetchmail will retrieve emails from your remote pop3 server and deliver locally to postfix. You can also install clamav, procmail, spamassassin to enable mail filtering.
POP3 Server ISP SMTP Server | /|\ +------|----- Your Computer -----------|--------+ | |/ | | | | | | | Fetchmail | | | | | | | | | | | |/ /|\ | | Local Postfix Local Postfix | | | | | | +---->------->-- Mutt ----->----+ | | | +-----------------------------------------------+
Ofcourse you also need to setup your local mailsever to use your ISP's SMTP server as a smart host for delivering email. .fetchmailrc file and howto for enabling smarthost for postfix is available on net.
Anurag
Anurag wrote:
Ofcourse you also need to setup your local mailsever to use your ISP's SMTP server as a smart host for delivering email. .fetchmailrc file and howto for enabling smarthost for postfix is available on net.
Fetchmail got configured in a jiffy using the 'fetchmailconf' utility and it passed the polling test.
Postfix too was setup with smtp authentication. However the mails cannot be sent due to some nameserver error. Here is a sample of mailq below.
8DC0356C34 314 Sat Apr 15 23:24:10 rony@localhost.localdomain (delivery temporarily suspended: Name service error for name=smtp1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com type=MX: Malformed name server reply) My_Email_Address BB7EA56C38 314 Sat Apr 15 23:24:17 rony@localhost.localdomain (delivery temporarily suspended: Name service error for name=smtp1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com type=MX: Malformed name server reply) My_Email_Address
Even tried postque -f but still the same errors. On the net some say its a dns resolution problem. The mails are sent using
echo "Postfix Works" | mail My_Email_Address
Any clues?
Regards,
Rony.
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On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 11:49:01PM +0530, Rony Bill wrote:
8DC0356C34 314 Sat Apr 15 23:24:10 rony@localhost.localdomain (delivery temporarily suspended: Name service error for name=smtp1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com type=MX: Malformed name server reply)
Looks like your lcoal mail is going through your smarthost (yahoo? why?).
Add localhost and localhost.localdomain to mydestination or... something else. I'm sleepy.
Rony Bill wrote:
Postfix too was setup with smtp authentication. However the mails cannot be sent due to some nameserver error. Here is a sample of mailq below.
Further to my earlier mail, this time instead of randomly adding parameters from different sample postfix main.cf files, I went to http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html and read the docs step by step and changed parameters accordingly. The main problem area was that the parameter relayhost = [Yahoo_SMTP_Server] was put without the [] as it was shown on a website and that gave the DNS problems. The postfix site specifically recommends the brackets to be added............." The form enclosed with [] eliminates DNS MX lookups. Don't worry if you don't know what that means. Just be sure to specify the [] around the mailhub hostname that your ISP gave to you, otherwise mail may be mis-delivered."
Now I am able to send messages to the outside world simply from command line just like sms. Its really fun to setup and I recomend new users who have a fair knowledge of linux command lines to visit the postfix site and try out this sleek beauty. http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html
I noticed that my mails are received as rony@localhost.localdomain. A little tweak of the cf file will solve that.
Next thing to setup, mutt.
Regards,
Rony.
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