Re: [Sheflug] Re: Mail server

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "Jose" == j l gomez-dans <Jos> writes:

    Jose> [While on the subject...]  Is there a simple MTA for dialup?
    Jose> I mean, I guess that there is a niche :-) for this kind of
    Jose> thing. Just a simple MTA for your average Joe Doe user,
    Jose> which can be configured easily to retrieve mail and to send
    Jose> it without the hassles of sendmail/postfix/exim (even though
    Jose> exim as configured by debian is a painless install). Having
    Jose> my home box send about 4 mails per month using
    Jose> sendmail/postfix is simply overkill, isn't it?

Going from meaty to simple...

Qmail with serialmail (both at http://cr.yp.to/) - Qmail is not really
that hard to set up, I haven't used serialmail - but most of
D.J. Bernstein's stuff is easy enough to get going.

Sounds like nullmailer does the job too
(http://untroubled.org/nullmailer/) - it's designed to relay to a
fixed set of smart hosts - i.e. your ISPs mailservers for relaying to
the destination.

I use getmail (http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-2.0/)
instead of fetchmail.

Getmail delivers messages directly to mbox or Maildir files - it does
not fetch them from a POP box and inject them into a local mailserver
queue for local delivery.

Of course, set $FAVOURITE_MUA to fetch from remove POP boxes and send to
remote SMTP mailservers saves any of this - but that wouldn't be any
fun, now, would it? ;-p

Hope that helps.

Baz.


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