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UK ADSL Coverage

The Register has an article stating that BT claims 80% of homes in the UK can now get ADSL broadband internet.
“This month we’ll have as many people connected to exchanges offering broadband as can switch on their mains gas cooker to make the supper,”
I am moving house next month, and as always I am absolutely paranoid about not having ADSL coverage in my area, it is just not conceivable that I would need to spend even 1 week without a fast reliable Internet connection, I don’t know how I ever managed without it.

Mutt SMTP via msmtp

I use the Mutt MUA, for years I hated the fact that there is no simple way to make it speak SMTP. The Mutt developers refuse to code in SMTP support since they maintain its a MUA not a MTA, see their FAQ.
Enter msmtp, it is a SMTP “plugin” for MUA’s.

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