[Sussex] MTAs (was: Testing testing 1..2..3..)

[Steve Dobson]

Geoff

> From: Geoff Teale 
> > From: Steve Dobson
> > If you have a exim "port" you can compile I can send you 
> > (when I get home) a exim.conf file that, with some
> > intelligence you can change for your settings.
> 
> Yup, we have exim in the portage tree.  That's a very 
> generous offer.  The real advantage to me is that I can
> run mutt or pine or such like.  It's one thing that I
> think is missing from Gentoo that Debian has - the
> configuration helpers you get.  Gentoo takes the approach 
> that you _need_ to know how set everything up yourself.
> Maybe it's time I learned!

It was four years ago that I switched from Solaris x86 to
Linux.  At that time I had to choice my MUA.  The advice I
got from a long time pine users was use mutt.  It can do
everything that pine can do an more.  -  Sorry pine users.

If you do use pine, then mutt is configurable enough that 
you can place those hardwired pine commands on the same
keys.  Being a vanilla mutt users I haven't gone down this
route. However the person advising me to use mutt made the
switch by doing just that.  There may well be example config
set-ups out on the net.   (Debian users check in
/usr/share/doc/mutt/examples - that's were I would expect 
them to be if such example ship with the mutt source.)

Steve