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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

> I have old mutt-bl2.tgz still installed on one computer and it does NOT
> work, though it appears to be sending mail (which stays in outbox).  Nor
> does Steven's mail program work in conjunction with this version of Mutt.

I think I had the older version of mutt-bl2 and Steven's mail program both 
working last year.  Neither was working this past month, looked like mutt 
had sent but it had not (pmail was not working).  I just dialed in with a 
friend's ISP, and changed /root/Mail/.user to the correct smtp line, and 
both mutt-bl2 (new version) and Steven's mail program now work.

So my ISP is sufficiently odd that it does not work with all mail 
programs.  (Like my BBS won't work with microcom but another one will).

I doubt Steven wants to figure out how to make pmail work with my ISP.
I posted the error message earlier.

On the two computers where I had the older mutt bl2 and upgraded to the 
newer one, mu address just puts you into mutt, not the screen with the To: 
already entered.  On a computer where I never had the older version, that 
part works.  Any ideas why?


> James has the newer mutt-bl2.tgz (2MB) still posted.  Steven's BL2 add-ons
> site gives me a message about no permission and also 404 not found.
> If this is going to be permanent, could Steven please remove that link.

What he has posted there does not seem to be gzipped.  I changed the name 
to mutt-bl2.tar and was able to untar it from / and it works.


> Before installing mutt-bl2.tgz you should make a backup copy of your
> links.cfg because it gets overwritten.   And edit it to use mutt as the
> links mailer if 'writemail' no longer works.  (It probably won't since
> mutt appears to break Steven's 'mail' script).
>
> Lynx may need a different sendmail program (from SW7.1) to send mail.
> It can be named something else to distinguish it from mutt's 'sendmail'
> script, which uses pmail.
>
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