[BL] msmtp for BL2 - authenticating mail transport agent

baslinux at lists.ibiblio.org baslinux at lists.ibiblio.org
Sun Mar 25 15:33:26 EDT 2007


On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 05:29:41PM +0000, baslinux at lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> My ISP started requiring authentication for outgoing mail a couple of 
> months ago, which pmail does not handle.  BL3 Sylpheed needs BL3 libX11.
> So I compiled msmtp for BL2.
> 
> http://keesan.freeshell.org/bl/msmtp-1.4.10-glibc225.tgz
> Jan 2007.  I omitted nls (German language version).

I use esmtp with mutt (non-BL system). Here's a tip that could help--you might be able to cannibalize an 
already-compiled, already-working authenticating smtp program. I use Freesco firewall/router and so keep track of its 
development. A new release just came out recently (version 037) and I noted in the changelog that it now includes an 
authenticating smtp program. Freesco still uses the 2.0.x kernel and libc5, so I would expect its smtp program to work 
with BL. Freesco comes as a single bootable floppy image, so you should be able to download it, mount it as a looped 
file system, and copy over from it its smtp program and config file. Not sure what the program is called, but I'm 
guessing it will be obvious.

James



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