http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=82744


#1
October 27th, 2005
Reinhard Tartler

Wanted: simple mailer for laptop use

Hi folks,

can anyone recommend me a good MTA (mail"server") suitable for network
use? My feature wishes would be:

* SMTP-Auth
* local (!) delivery
* mail queing if offline
* not panic when laptop is offline for 2 or 3 days.
* easy to configure (1 config file if possible)

I know that postfix and exim4 are able to do this, but they are imo a
bit too heavy for my use. ssmtp and nullmailer don't have local
delivery. Do I really need a heavyweight mailer or is there somewhere
a lightweight alternative?



#8
October 27th, 2005
Derek Broughton
Re: Wanted: simple mailer for laptop use 

...

No kidding. The whole point is that you _have_ to have an MTA and you don't
want to configure Postfix/Exim/Sendmail/Qmail (almost all of which I've
actually done).

I now use masqmail - it's really simple, my configuration is all in debconf,
it's supported by whereami, and it's really simple

I'm sure you can make any MTA behave nicely when offline, but it was a chore
with all of them.

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