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Useful Configuration of Cygwin, Part 3: Mail Setting up Exim Cygwin now comes with the popular Exim mail transport agent. The Exim package comes with a very simple setup script which can be run from the console: exim-config This is enough to set Exim up and install and run the service. It will work fine for delivering mail to local users on the system . Iam still trying to figure you how to get it to do SMTP authorization with a smarthost. Most people will need this since they have an account with an ISP whose mail server they authorize with and send outgoing mail through. Its a shame that there are no examples nor documentation with the Exim Cygwin package on how to do this. Setting up Mutt Mutt is probably the most widely-used console-based e-mail application. It is highly configurable and powerful. Here is a skeletal ~/.muttrc that you can use to get started (note: this skeletal .muttrc will also work fine on Linux systems): set folder=/var/spool/mail set spoolfile=/var/spool/mail/$USER set record=+sent set editor="vim -c 'set textwidth=72'" # Sort mailboxes according to date received in reverse order (newest messages) # at the top set sort=reverse-date set arrow_cursor=no set move=no set markers=no set askbcc=yes set menu_scroll=yes set pager_stop bind pager <up> previous-line bind pager <down> next-line set resolve=no mailboxes ! +mutt-users +exim-users folder-hook mutt-users 'set sort=threads' folder-hook mutt-users 'set sort_aux=reverse-date-received' folder-hook exim-users 'set sort=threads' folder-hook exim-users 'set sort_aux=reverse-date-received' alias mutt-users Mutt User List <mutt-users@mutt.org> lists mutt-users exim-users color normal default black color hdrdefault red default color quoted brightblue default color signature red default color indicator white blue color error brightred default color status yellow blue color tree magenta default # the thread tree in the index menu color tilde magenta default color message brightcyan default color markers brightcyan default color attachment brightmagenta default color search default green # how to hilite search patterns in the pager color header brightred default ^(From|Subject): color body magenta default "(ftp|http)://[^ ]+" # point out URLs color body magenta default [-a-z_0-9.]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+ # e-mail addresses color underline brightgreen default Setting up procmail Procmail is a powerful tool used to filter incoming e-mail. You set up rules in your ~/.procmailrc which filter incoming mail accordingly. Here is a basic sample ~/.procmailrc: #PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin: MAILDIR=$HOME/mail DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/inbox LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail VERBOSE=yes :0: * ^(Cc|To).*cygwin*@cygwin.com cygwin This simple filter will process incoming mail that is To: or Cc: to the cygwin mailing list into the cygwin folder. All other mail will by default go to ~/mail/inbox. Note that if you use this setup you will want to change the following lines in your ~/.muttrc: set folder=/var/spool/mail set spoolfile=/var/spool/mail/$USER to this: set folder=~/mail set spoolfile=~/mail/inbox Setting up fetchmail Fetchmail is used to poll mail servers and retrieve mail. The configuration file is ~/.fetchmailrc. Here is a simple example: defaults mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f %F -d %T" set no bouncemail poll 'pop.isp.com' protocol pop3 username 'username@isp.com' password 'mypass' is localuser here Replace 'localuser' with your local user account and the other logon credentials accordingly. References: "Mutt on Cygwin"; http://www.geocities.com/win32mutt/cygwin.html "How to install a SMTP server (called cygwin-exim) on a Windows 2000/XP box"; http://pigtail.net/LRP/cygwin-exim.html "41.1. Sending mail to a smart host"; http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.20/doc/html/spec_41.html#IX2284 "3. ROUTING TO REMOTE HOSTS"; http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.20/doc/html/FAQ_3.html#TOC115 "Mutt on Cygwin, Setup sSMTP"; http://www.geocities.com/win32mutt/cygwin-ssmtp.html |
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