The default `mts.conf' file assumes you retrieve new mail from
a local (or NFS mounted) maildrop, and send outgoing mail by
injecting the message to a mail transfer agent (such as sendmail)
- on the local machine via SMTP.
-
- If, instead, all your mail sending and receiving occurs on a
- remote SMTP server, you will need to look at the values of the
- variables "localname" and "servers":
-
- a) "localname" defines the hostname that nmh considers local.
- If not set, then nmh queries your OS for this value.
-
- b) "servers" defines the server to which you send outgoing SMTP
- traffic.
+ on the local machine.
Check the `mh-tailor' man page for a list of all the available options
for this file ("masquerade" may be of particular interest).
nmh's binaries (show, inc, comp, ...) are installed here.
--libdir=DIR (DEFAULT is ${prefix}/lib)
- nmh's support binaries (post, slocal, mhl, ...) are installed here.
+ nmh's support binaries (spost, slocal, mhl, ...) are installed here.
--sysconfdir=DIR (DEFAULT is ${prefix}/etc)
nmh's config files (mts.conf, mhn.defaults, ...) are installed here.
is not world- or user-writeable, and thus a lock file cannot
be created.
---with-mts=MTS (DEFAULT is smtp)
- Specify the default mail transport system you want to use. The two
- acceptable options are "smtp" (which is the default), and
- "sendmail". This value will be put into the mts.conf file. You
- may find it convenient to specify a value at configure-time,
- however, so that each time nmh is reinstalled, the right value will
- be there.
-
- If you use "smtp", this will enable a direct SMTP (simple mail
- transport protocol) interface in nmh. When sending mail, instead
- of passing the message to the mail transport agent, `post' will
- open a socket connection to the mail port on the machine specified
- in the `mts.conf' file (default is localhost), and speak SMTP
- directly.
-
- If you use "sendmail", then `post' will send messages by forking a
- local copy of sendmail. Currently it will still speak SMTP with
- this local copy of sendmail.
-
- If you wish to use a transport agent other than sendmail, you will
- need to use a `sendmail wrapper'.
-
--with-ndbm=LIB (DEFAULT is to autodetect)
--with-ndbmheader=HEADER (DEFAULT is to autodetect)
Specify the header file (eg ndbm.h) and library (eg ndbm) to use
is not given, then the configuration process will search for the
command `more' and use it as the default.
---with-smtpservers='SMTPSERVER1[ SMTPSERVER2...]' (DEFAULT is localhost)
- If this option is not specified, the mts.conf file will contain
- the line "servers: localhost", which may be manually edited later.
- You may find it convenient to specify a value at configure-time,
- however, so that each time nmh is reinstalled, the right value will be
- there.
-
- See the mh-tailor(5) man page for full documentation of "servers:".
-
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