Thanks to Todd Slater & Brian McKee

G'day there One & All,

	This message is a thankyou to the above blokes for their
assistance
with my query in the thread "Web & Audio Server
Advice Sought".

	I did try to answer in the thread but without success. 

	My mutt setup is working fine, but Postfix hates me. It's
sending my
emails out, but they aren't arriving anywhere. Hence I'll
continue with
Evolution until I get it sorted out. Either that, or I'll
get so annoyed
with Postfix that I'll just keep using Evolution anyway =).

	Thanks to both Todd & Brian for your assistance. Your
advice was most
helpful and has certainly aided my decision to adopt your
suggestions.

Thanks again,
See ya
Ken McLennan
Qld, Australia



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Ken McLennan wrote:
> 	My mutt setup is working fine, but Postfix hates me.
It's sending my
> emails out, but they aren't arriving anywhere. Hence
I'll continue with
> Evolution until I get it sorted out. Either that, or
I'll get so annoyed
> with Postfix that I'll just keep using Evolution
anyway =).

Try ssmtp or esmtp.  Both are simple send only mtas that
will work wonderfully with mutt.  They are dirt simple to
configure and don't run any services on your machine, which
makes them more secure.  I would recommend ssmtp.


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On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 13:58 +1000, Ken McLennan wrote:
> 	My mutt setup is working fine, but Postfix hates me.
It's sending my
> emails out, but they aren't arriving anywhere. Hence
I'll continue with
> Evolution until I get it sorted out. Either that, or
I'll get so annoyed
> with Postfix that I'll just keep using Evolution
anyway =).

I'm sorry this reply is really quite off topic and I'm not
sure weather
to bother with a new thread. Anyway something is really
annoying me, I
seem to hear so much about Mutt and something like postfix,
it seems to
be very common. This craze is just passing me by. Please
would someone
kindly explain to me what mutt+postfix or + courier actually
is (the
synaptic descriptions didn't enlighten me much), and also
why it is so
good and popular. Maybe I can also use this??


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On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 16:42 +0100, Gabriel M Dragffy wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 13:58 +1000, Ken McLennan wrote:
> > 	My mutt setup is working fine, but Postfix hates
me. It's sending my
> > emails out, but they aren't arriving anywhere.
Hence I'll continue with
> > Evolution until I get it sorted out. Either that,
or I'll get so annoyed
> > with Postfix that I'll just keep using Evolution
anyway =).
> 
> I'm sorry this reply is really quite off topic and
I'm not sure weather
> to bother with a new thread. Anyway something is really
annoying me, I
> seem to hear so much about Mutt and something like
postfix, it seems to
> be very common. This craze is just passing me by.
Please would someone
> kindly explain to me what mutt+postfix or + courier
actually is (the
> synaptic descriptions didn't enlighten me much), and
also why it is so
> good and popular. Maybe I can also use this??

OK. mutt is a mail client that runs in a terminal window.
It's purely
terminal window based with no fancy GUI. If you've used
vim, then the
interface will feel familiar. One reason mutt is so popular
is that it
is highly configurable (there is a config file you have to
edit
manually, but there are alot of options!) and it is also
very fast and
deals with large mail boxes very efficiently.

postfix is a mail transport agent, that is it runs in the
background and
looks after delivering any outgoing mail and will also deal
with any
mail coming into your system and deliver it to you mailbox.
Alternative
to postfix are sendmail, exim and others. postfix is the
choice for
Ubuntu probably because it is reasonably straight forward to
configure.

courier is an imap server. This would run on a machine where
your mail
gets delivered and would allow you to get at that mail and
all your
folders using an imap compatible client, such as mutt,
thunderbird,
evolution etc.

Hope this helps!

Regards,
Tony.
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On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 04:42:14PM +0100, Gabriel M Dragffy
wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 13:58 +1000, Ken McLennan wrote:
> > 	My mutt setup is working fine, but Postfix hates
me. It's sending my
> > emails out, but they aren't arriving anywhere.
Hence I'll continue with
> > Evolution until I get it sorted out. Either that,
or I'll get so annoyed
> > with Postfix that I'll just keep using Evolution
anyway =).
> 
> I'm sorry this reply is really quite off topic and
I'm not sure weather
> to bother with a new thread. Anyway something is really
annoying me, I
> seem to hear so much about Mutt and something like
postfix, it seems to
> be very common. This craze is just passing me by.
Please would someone
> kindly explain to me what mutt+postfix or + courier
actually is (the
> synaptic descriptions didn't enlighten me much), and
also why it is so
> good and popular. Maybe I can also use this??

Mutt is text mode only and that is the reason I use it. I
spend a lot of
time on the road. I tried all the various GUI mailers but
most are dog slow
through an ssh connection. Mutt is blazingly fast even on a
1200 bps
connection on crappy lines (depending on the size of your
mail folders, of
course). I ssh to my box and fire up mutt to do my mail.
BTW, I use ssmtp
to send and fetchmail+procmail to receive and drop the mail
into my Mail
folders. I use maildir format where every mail is treated as
a separate
file. Works For Me.

Jack 

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