Mail clients.

Mutt would be the obvious choice.  

-----Original Message-----
From: port-hpcmips-ownerNetBSD.org on behalf of
Matthew Gracie
Sent: Thu 6/15/2006 10:08 AM
To: port-hpcmipsNetBSD.org
Subject: Mail clients.
 
I'm outfitting a NEC Mobilepro 780 as a portable
communication machine,
and I'm looking for recommendations on mail clients. I
would prefer
something console-based, although I'm also using X if
necessary, and it
has to have IMAP support. GPG support is a definite plus.
Anyone have a
recommendation or two?

--Matt

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Parish, Eric Robert (UMR-Student) wrote:

>Mutt would be the obvious choice.  
>  
>
Does Mutt still require the user to run an MTA on their
machine to send
mail? Considering that I'm going to be using this at
conferences and the
like, I don't know that port 25 will always be open for me
to freely use
like that.

--Matt

>I'm outfitting a NEC Mobilepro 780 as a portable
communication machine,
>and I'm looking for recommendations on mail clients. I
would prefer
>something console-based, although I'm also using X if
necessary, and it
>has to have IMAP support. GPG support is a definite
plus. Anyone have a
>recommendation or two?
>
>--Matt
>
>  
>


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Information Security Administrator  graciemcanisius.edu
Canisius College ITS		    425531N / 0785109W
http://www2.canisius.edu/~graciem/graciem_public_key.gpg
	

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 02:02:38PM -0400, Matthew Gracie
wrote:
> Does Mutt still require the user to run an MTA on their
machine to send
> mail? Considering that I'm going to be using this at
conferences and the
> like, I don't know that port 25 will always be open
for me to freely use
> like that.

With pkgsrc/mail/msmtp, mutt does not need you to configure
an MTA on
your machine to send mail.

I don't understand how they can block port 25 on your local
machine.

Ben

Ben Collver wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 02:02:38PM -0400, Matthew Gracie
wrote:
>  
>
>>Does Mutt still require the user to run an MTA on
their machine to send
>>mail? Considering that I'm going to be using this
at conferences and the
>>like, I don't know that port 25 will always be open
for me to freely use
>>like that.
>>    
>>
>
>With pkgsrc/mail/msmtp, mutt does not need you to
configure an MTA on
>your machine to send mail.
>
>I don't understand how they can block port 25 on your
local machine.
>
>Ben
>  
>
I'm not saying that port 25 incoming would be blocked on my
local
machine. Rather, I have seen ISP configured so as to block
port 25
traffic outward from an end user to anything _except_ the
ISP's
sanctioned mail server. This is pretty common in some home
broadband
networks as an anti-spam measure, to keep compromised hosts
from sending
mail.

Anyway, that's my concern about that. But if I can use
SMTPAUTH to send
the mail through the server here at work, that's great. I
was just a
little concerned when I read the docs on the Mutt web page.

--Matt--

Matt Gracie			    (716) 888-2403
Information Security Administrator  graciemcanisius.edu
Canisius College ITS		    425531N / 0785109W
http://www2.canisius.edu/~graciem/graciem_public_key.gpg
	

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 02:34:20PM -0400, Matthew Gracie
wrote:
> I'm not saying that port 25 incoming would be blocked
on my local
> machine. Rather, I have seen ISP configured so as to
block port 25
> traffic outward from an end user to anything _except_
the ISP's
> sanctioned mail server. This is pretty common in some
home broadband
> networks as an anti-spam measure, to keep compromised
hosts from sending
> mail.

In that case, you can configure the MTA on your local
machine to relay
all mail through the ISP's sanctioned mail server.  In
postfix this is
set in /etc/postfix/main.cf on a line like
relayhost = mailserver.isp.tld

mail/msmtp may be simpler

Ben

On 06/15 02:02 , Matthew Gracie wrote:
> Parish, Eric Robert (UMR-Student) wrote:
> 
> >Mutt would be the obvious choice.  
> >
> Does Mutt still require the user to run an MTA on their
machine to send
> mail? 

yes.
try nullmailer. You may want to use the Debian Linux patches
on it, which
makes it daemonize and log via syslog, instead of its usual
djb-ish
wierdness.

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