[wplug] mail attachments?

Brian Medley pub-lists-wplug at bmedley.org
Mon Jan 28 12:43:24 EST 2008


On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:33:12PM -0500, Jonathan S. Billings wrote:

> 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.

Later versions of mutt also have an smtp_url parameter.  Mutt can
send email via SMTP itself; I'm not sure if this is in the main
version or just development.

-- 
Brian Medley


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