[wplug] mail attachments?

[Jonathan S. Billings]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 10:53:55PM -0500, Zach wrote:
> On Jan 27, 2008 4:50 PM, Jonathan S. Billings <wbanguna at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > That's because 'mail' doesn't create MIME enclosures.  One of the
> > reasons I like the 'mutt' mail reader is that you can use it with
> > "mailx" commpose mode, giving you the ability to send a message from
> > the command like, and there's an -a flag to let you attach a file.
> > It'll create the appropriate MIME enclosure for the file.
> 
> Ah, good to know. Something is not quite right with my mutt setup, it
> complains about finding no mailbox yet I have $HOME/mbox, hope the
> admin can track down the problem (it is on my remote account I use via
> ssh so I have just regular non-root access). I don't have outbound
> mail on my local machine since I don't know how to get outbound or
> inbound mail working with dialup heh.

You probably need to set some configuration options in your ~/.muttrc,
such as set spoolfile="~/mbox".

As for inbound mail, it's probably easier to just set up either
Fetchmail to sync a remote mailbox with your localmailbox than try to
make the mail travel via SMTP.  

With mutt, I use 'esmtp' instead of sendmail, so I can have
authenticated STARTTLS SMTP sessions instead of relying on sendmail on
my local workstation.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <wbanguna at gmail.com>