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+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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+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.