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[Alejandro Lieber <dos AT lieber.com.ar>]

Sindi:

I really don't know your problem but..................

In BL3 pmail does not do authenticated SMTP.

I think sendmail does.

Alejandro Lieber


sindi keesan wrote:
> I had set up links (with Steven's help, modeled on BL3) to use his mailto 
> script (which no longer works now that mutt has disabled mailz because 
> they use different .pmailrc).
>
> mailto "mailto %" 1  - used to call up his script when I typed in a
> mailto:address in links or clicked on a mailto: link at a site.
>
> I added to the mu script, right after mutt, a $1
> mutt keesan AT freeshell.org brings up mutt in mail-compose mode
> with this address already on the To: line
>
> I replaced the "writemail" line in links.cfg with
> mailto "mu %" 1
>
> Same .pmailrc file.  How do I send files starting in . from one computer 
> to the other?  When I tried to send .* the whole system started to 
> transfer.  I want to copy over the working /root/Mail/*
>
> Lynx uses nano as the editor when I do a mailto: and I don't need to 
> send attachments so don't need mutt or any other mail program to do a 
> mailto with lynx.  Where is lynx/nano putting the saved file?  I can tell 
> sendmail to look there for it and tell lynx where to find sendmail.
> It is not in /tmp.  I am not asked about the file name to write to.
> Pico -w is the default EDITOR in /etc/profile.  Is there some default file 
> it writes to?  	If I figure this out I could use lynx as my mail program 
> until mutt is fixed.
>
> Grep (busybox) does not seem to look in subdirectories.  I wrote a mail 
> and then tried to look for the character string in it (!@#$%).
>
> There are lots of mailz and two mutt- directories in /tmp.
> At least one of my mailz mails went here as outbox002_0001.  How do I get 
> it into /root/mail/outbox now that .pmailrc has been changed to work with 
> mutt?