meillo@290: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=82744
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meillo@290: October 27th, 2005
meillo@290: Reinhard Tartler
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meillo@290: Wanted: simple mailer for laptop use
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meillo@290: Hi folks,
meillo@290: 
meillo@290: can anyone recommend me a good MTA (mail"server") suitable for network
meillo@290: use? My feature wishes would be:
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meillo@290: * SMTP-Auth
meillo@290: * local (!) delivery
meillo@290: * mail queing if offline
meillo@290: * not panic when laptop is offline for 2 or 3 days.
meillo@290: * easy to configure (1 config file if possible)
meillo@290: 
meillo@290: I know that postfix and exim4 are able to do this, but they are imo a
meillo@290: bit too heavy for my use. ssmtp and nullmailer don't have local
meillo@290: delivery. Do I really need a heavyweight mailer or is there somewhere
meillo@290: a lightweight alternative?
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meillo@290: #8
meillo@290: October 27th, 2005
meillo@290: Derek Broughton
meillo@290: Re: Wanted: simple mailer for laptop use 
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meillo@290: No kidding. The whole point is that you _have_ to have an MTA and you don't
meillo@290: want to configure Postfix/Exim/Sendmail/Qmail (almost all of which I've
meillo@290: actually done).
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meillo@290: I now use masqmail - it's really simple, my configuration is all in debconf,
meillo@290: it's supported by whereami, and it's really simple
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meillo@290: I'm sure you can make any MTA behave nicely when offline, but it was a chore
meillo@290: with all of them.
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