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moved some stuff to the attic
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:06:13 +0100
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1 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=82744
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4 #1
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5 October 27th, 2005
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6 Reinhard Tartler
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8 Wanted: simple mailer for laptop use
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10 Hi folks,
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12 can anyone recommend me a good MTA (mail"server") suitable for network
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13 use? My feature wishes would be:
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15 * SMTP-Auth
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16 * local (!) delivery
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17 * mail queing if offline
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18 * not panic when laptop is offline for 2 or 3 days.
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19 * easy to configure (1 config file if possible)
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21 I know that postfix and exim4 are able to do this, but they are imo a
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22 bit too heavy for my use. ssmtp and nullmailer don't have local
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23 delivery. Do I really need a heavyweight mailer or is there somewhere
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24 a lightweight alternative?
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29 October 27th, 2005
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30 Derek Broughton
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31 Re: Wanted: simple mailer for laptop use
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35 No kidding. The whole point is that you _have_ to have an MTA and you don't
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36 want to configure Postfix/Exim/Sendmail/Qmail (almost all of which I've
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37 actually done).
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39 I now use masqmail - it's really simple, my configuration is all in debconf,
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40 it's supported by whereami, and it's really simple
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42 I'm sure you can make any MTA behave nicely when offline, but it was a chore
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43 with all of them.
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