Re: Setup for sending mail via Mutt

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Hello,

Again, please be more clear about what shoud be done.  What page is this
referring to, for example?

thanks,
julia

On Tue, 15 Apr 2025, Richard Akintola wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM Richard Akintola
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > The following assumes that you have installed Esmtp or Exim4 (default on Debian)
> > and you have generated password using App Password (for Gmail)
> >
> > Configure Esmtp
> > 1. Added the following to ~/.esmtp file
> > identity "[email protected]"
> > hostname smtp.gmail.com:587
> > username "[email protected]"
> > password "passwordGeneratedByAppPassword"
> > starttls required
> >
> > 2. Make sendmail point to esmtp using the command
> > sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/sbin/sendmail sendmail /usr/bin/esmtp 50
> >
> > 3. Test if esmtp can send mails
> > echo "Testing email via esmtp" | /usr/sbin/sendmail -v [email protected]
> >
> > 4. Add the following to ~/.muttrc file
> > set sendmail="/usr/bin/esmtp"
> > set envelope_from=yes
> > set from="My Name <[email protected]>"
> > set use_from=yes
> > set edit_headers=yes
> >
> > 5. Setup Done
> >
> >
> > Configure Exim4 (default mail transfer agent - MTA on Debian)
> > 1. Make sendmail point to exim4 using the command
> > sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/sbin/sendmail sendmail /usr/sbin/exim4 100
> >
> > 2. Run the command below to add gmail and password to exim4 in the format below
> > sudo vi /etc/exim4/passwd.client
> >
> > smtp.gmail.com:[email protected]:passwordGeneratedByAppPassword
> >
> > 3. Add the following configuration to update-exim4.conf.conf via sudo
> >  e.g sudo vi /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
> >
> > dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
> > dc_other_hostnames=''
> > dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1; ::1'
> > dc_readhost=''
> > dc_relay_domains=''
> > dc_minimaldns='false'
> > dc_relay_nets=''
> > dc_smarthost='smtp.gmail.com::587'
> > CFILEMODE='644'
> > dc_use_split_config='false'
> > dc_hide_mailname='true'
> > dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
> > dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
> >
> > 3. Test if Exim4 can send mails
> > echo "Testing email via Exim4" | /usr/sbin/sendmail -v [email protected]
> >
> > 4. Add the following to ~/.muttrc
> > set sendmail="/usr/sbin/exim4"
> > set use_from=yes
> > set realname="Your Name"
> > set from="[email protected]"
> > set envelope_from=yes
> >
> > 5. Setup Done.
>
> Building Linux Kernel on Debian
>
> The command "make bindeb-pkg" is a Debian-specific command and is used
> to build Debian (.deb) kernel packages from the Linux kernel source,
> these packages are created in the parent directory of the directory
> where the make command was used.
>
> Installation
> After running "make bindeb-pkg or make -jN bindeb-pkg", you can install the
> kernel with:
> cd ..
> sudo apt install ./*.deb
>
> And if needed, remove it safely using:
> sudo apt remove linux-image-<version> linux-headers-<version>
>
> Richard Akintola
>
>
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