[SOLVED] A simple MTA only for Gmail?

camphor · 01-25-2010, 02:13 AM

Hi all. I was wondering if anyone knew of a lightweight and easy-to-configure MTA, or any other way of sending messages from a command-line environment without too much of a fuss. I would only be sending messages through a single Gmail account, and would rather not bother with all of the sendmail configuration.

repo · 01-25-2010, 02:18 AM

I use exim, and gmail as smarthost
See
http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4
To retrieve mail from gmail, you can use fetchmail.
http://www.axllent.org/docs/networki...with_fetchmail

camphor · 01-25-2010, 02:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by repo

I use exim, and gmail as smarthost
See
http://wiki.debian.org/GmailAndExim4
To retrieve mail from gmail, you can use fetchmail.
http://www.axllent.org/docs/networki...with_fetchmail

I've seen this and have tried to implement it, but Debian's split-configuration way of installing exim really confuses me. It is much different in Slackware.

dugan · 01-25-2010, 02:21 AM

Sending only? From Mutt? To people offsite?

msmtp. It's a Mutt plugin that sends messages through an smtp server of your choice.

andrew.46 · 01-25-2010, 02:56 AM

Hi camphor,

This one was written by a Slackware user even:

Using Mutt with Gmail
http://www.andrews-corner.org/mutt.html

Andrew

dugan · 01-25-2010, 03:09 AM

Can you describe what you want to end up with?

camphor · 01-27-2010, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrew.46

Hi camphor,

This one was written by a Slackware user even:

Using Mutt with Gmail
http://www.andrews-corner.org/mutt.html

Andrew

This worked like a charm, thank you!