Re: Balsa + libESMTP patch

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 01:24:27PM +0100, Brian Stafford wrote:
> Hi Pawel and list,
> 
> Attached is a patch which replaces the use of sendmail and
> Balsa's original SMTP client with libESMTP.
> 
> You will need to obtain at least version 0.6.1 of libESMTP
> from http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/ to use this
> patch.
> 
The patch doesn't add a --with-libesmtp, does it ? It should :)

> To set up the patched version of Balsa, go to
> Settings/Preferences/Mail Servers and specify the remote SMTP
> server mail is submitted to.  The syntax is hostname[:port].

there was a smtp port inputbox in the config dialog. why didn't you use that
?

> Since libESMTP defaults to port 587 rather than 25 you will

errrrr. why ?

> most likely need to specify the server as something like
> 'localhost:25'.  User and Pass Phrase must be specified if the
> SMTP server requires authentication.
> 

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