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5 October 27th, 2005

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

13 use? My feature wishes would be:

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15 * SMTP-Auth

16 * local (!) delivery

17 * mail queing if offline

18 * not panic when laptop is offline for 2 or 3 days.

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

22 bit too heavy for my use. ssmtp and nullmailer don't have local

23 delivery. Do I really need a heavyweight mailer or is there somewhere

24 a lightweight alternative?

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29 October 27th, 2005

30 Derek Broughton

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

36 want to configure Postfix/Exim/Sendmail/Qmail (almost all of which I've

37 actually done).

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39 I now use masqmail - it's really simple, my configuration is all in debconf,

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

43 with all of them.

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