# HG changeset patch # User meillo@marmaro.de # Date 1232208373 -3600 # Node ID 28a5dc0546471c01336bc46a26a3c0a52f967001 # Parent 5e788fee62a8e9a25891604b48a7209d27650696 moved some stuff to the attic diff -r 5e788fee62a8 -r 28a5dc054647 thesis/attic/ubuntuforums-simple-mailer.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/thesis/attic/ubuntuforums-simple-mailer.txt Sat Jan 17 17:06:13 2009 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +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. + +... diff -r 5e788fee62a8 -r 28a5dc054647 thesis/attic/venema-no-second-postfix.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/thesis/attic/venema-no-second-postfix.txt Sat Jan 17 17:06:13 2009 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +on venema: ``there'll be no second postfix'': + +Yes there will be one, when postfix becomes obsolete, and this day will come as requirements change. See sendmail for example: it had nearly the whole market ... and now it's dying. sendmail once also thought it would be the number 1, forever. + +cf. Tanenbaum vs. Linux: It was too early. Linux' time has not ended, but it will some day. + +anyway, masqmail is not intended to become a second postfix. It's more inteded to become a second qmail, but with a differend target field.