On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:22:28 -0600, Richi Plana myfedora@richip.dhs.org wrote:
Besides, you said it requires an MTA. Would an effort to add the ability to detect the availability of /sbin/sendmail in the above-mentioned packages and use it if available or speak SMTP over port 25 if not be desirable? Packages like evolution and thunderbird do that and therefore don't "Require: sendmail".
Mutt isn't going to be able to use smtp. You really do want something local to store messages in case there is a temporary problem in sending the mail out. However, you could conceivably use mutt just to read email from a remote imap server. That is probably not a likely use case though.