[ILUG] trying to get sendmail to queue using mutt

[Conor Daly]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 10:44:01AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
 kevin lyda thought...
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 12:06:50AM +0100, Conor Daly wrote:
> 
> > Just browsing through mutt documentation and notice that it uses
> > sendmail directly.  Now, I'm using an smtp server (hobbiton) to queue
> > email until an internet connection comes up but from mutt, sendmail
> > tries to deliver immediatly.
> 
> it would be easier if you would state what machines all these things
> are happening on, but i suspect if you have mutt on hobbiton start sendmail
> with a flag telling it to use deferred delivery it should work ok
> (anyone know how?  the option in the sendmail.cf is O DeliveryMode=d,
> so is it sendmail -t -i -ODeliveryMode=d ?).  

I've done just that in /etc/sendmail.cf (How do I set that in sendmail.mf and
regenerate sendmail.cf?)  I want the default behaviour for sendmail to be deferred 
anyhow so I haven't tried setting it in the .muttrc
but i suspect it should work there anyhow (though, would this override the
daemonised sendmail's behaviour if it is set to something other than
'deferred'?).  

> sendmail on the clients
> should just be set up to be a nullhost with the relay set to
> hobbiton.

Since mutt's imap support is still fragile, I think I'll just keep using it by
rlogin to hobbiton and implement the imap bit later.  I think my client
sendmail works correctly but I'll have to look into that later.  Something
about SmartHost in one of the many config files...

> 
> > (Still haven't figured out how to append my .sig with mutt...)
> 
> perhaps it's looking for .signature in your home dir?  (i don't
> have anything set up in my .muttrc to read in my signature, but
> i do have a .signature and mutt reads it in automagically...)

Well, I was still looking through the mutt documentation and I hadn't a
.signature on this particular machine.  I've got one now and it works! 

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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

Domestic Sysadmin :-)