<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>Mutt-i, GnuPG and PGP Howto: Sending mail to and receiving mail from the internet</TITLE> <LINK HREF="Mutt-GnuPG-PGP-HOWTO-4.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="Mutt-GnuPG-PGP-HOWTO-2.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="Mutt-GnuPG-PGP-HOWTO.html#toc3" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="Mutt-GnuPG-PGP-HOWTO-4.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Mutt-GnuPG-PGP-HOWTO-2.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Mutt-GnuPG-PGP-HOWTO.html#toc3">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="s3">3. Sending mail to and receiving mail from the internet</A></H2> <P>This document does not deal with exchanging mail messages between local machine and other nodes (inside a local area network or over the internet). This exchange should be carried out by messages transfer agents (MTAs) such as <CODE>sendmail</CODE> <A HREF="http://www.sendmail.org">http://www.sendmail.org</A>, <CODE>qmail</CODE> <A HREF="http://www.qmail.org">http://www.qmail.org</A>, <CODE>exim</CODE> <A HREF="http://www.exim.org">http://www.exim.org</A>, <CODE>smail</CODE> <A HREF="ftp://ftp.planix.com/pub/Smail">ftp://ftp.planix.com/pub/Smail</A>, etc. <P>In this document it is presupposed that this method of send/receive messages outside of the local computer is already installed and working in a correct way. If you can send a message and read your mail with the <CODE>mail</CODE> command from the command line in your computer, <P> <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> $ mail -s <subject> <user@domain.net><BR> write here the text, and finish with an alone point in the next line<BR> . </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>you must have installed any type of MTA that is doing the messages transfer. In other way, you can get documentation about setting it up in the manual pages of <EM>smail</EM>: <P> <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> $ man smail </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>or the MTA that you have, and <EM>fetchmail</EM>: <P> <BLOCKQUOTE><CODE> $ man fetchmail </CODE></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>or in other similar document that makes reference to those programs. <P> <HR> <A HREF="Mutt-GnuPG-PGP-HOWTO-4.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Mutt-GnuPG-PGP-HOWTO-2.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Mutt-GnuPG-PGP-HOWTO.html#toc3">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>