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On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> 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

esmtp seems to require procmail

> 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.

Can you figure out what the program is?  Maybe it is msmtp.

> James