Re: Minimum packages needed for simple MTA

On Sat, Jun 1, 2019, at 5:08 AM, Frank Watt wrote:
> I've used sendmail for years to send mail from a single computer to my 
> ISP with mutt my mail client.  But it recently stopped working and I've 
> given up trying to get my head around sendmail's obscure methods.
> 
> Mutt still works receiving mail with fetchmail and procmail, but I can't 
> send mail, so I've had to use Thunderbird for this one.

Mutt has a built-in SMTP client nowadays, so if your Mutt has been compiled with it, switching to using that would be similar to how you're using Thunderbird.  Then you wouldn't need anything else for sending.

If you do want something else, there's msmtp:

  https://marlam.de/msmtp/

Lewis