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Re: sending mail with pine
- From: Marcos Lorenzo <marcos at it dot uc3m dot es>
- To: Eduardo Chappa <chappa at math dot washington dot edu>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:41:05 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: sending mail with pine
Eduardo Chappa <chappa@math.washington.edu> wrote [Nov 12 -0800]
EC > *** Marcos Lorenzo (marcos@it.uc3m.es) wrote today:
EC >
EC > :) I installed pine and I tried to send a test e-mail and I got pine
EC > :) completely blocked. I believe pine wants some features that ssmtp
EC > :) doesn't have.
EC > :)
EC > :) I did ln -s /usr/sbin/ssmtp /usr/sbin/sendmail, but I'm not sure If
EC > :) this is right.
EC > :)
EC > :) Is there any document on how to send mail with pine?
EC >
EC > Hola Marcos,
EC >
EC > I've always had a direct connection to an smtp server, and that's the
EC > way I've sent mail. Try to see if adding the name of the smtp server you
EC > want to use to the smtp-server variable in your .pinerc works. You may
EC > need to add it in the form
EC >
EC > smtp-server = name.smtp.server/user=yourid
EC >
EC > if it needs authentication, or if the id of your smtp server is different
EC > than the account name you have in cygwin.
EC >
EC > Let me know if this works or not.
Yeah! it really works. Thanks a lot.
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