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     1.4 +http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=82744
     1.5 +
     1.6 +
     1.7 +#1
     1.8 +October 27th, 2005
     1.9 +Reinhard Tartler
    1.10 +
    1.11 +Wanted: simple mailer for laptop use
    1.12 +
    1.13 +Hi folks,
    1.14 +
    1.15 +can anyone recommend me a good MTA (mail"server") suitable for network
    1.16 +use? My feature wishes would be:
    1.17 +
    1.18 +* SMTP-Auth
    1.19 +* local (!) delivery
    1.20 +* mail queing if offline
    1.21 +* not panic when laptop is offline for 2 or 3 days.
    1.22 +* easy to configure (1 config file if possible)
    1.23 +
    1.24 +I know that postfix and exim4 are able to do this, but they are imo a
    1.25 +bit too heavy for my use. ssmtp and nullmailer don't have local
    1.26 +delivery. Do I really need a heavyweight mailer or is there somewhere
    1.27 +a lightweight alternative?
    1.28 +
    1.29 +
    1.30 +
    1.31 +#8
    1.32 +October 27th, 2005
    1.33 +Derek Broughton
    1.34 +Re: Wanted: simple mailer for laptop use 
    1.35 +
    1.36 +...
    1.37 +
    1.38 +No kidding. The whole point is that you _have_ to have an MTA and you don't
    1.39 +want to configure Postfix/Exim/Sendmail/Qmail (almost all of which I've
    1.40 +actually done).
    1.41 +
    1.42 +I now use masqmail - it's really simple, my configuration is all in debconf,
    1.43 +it's supported by whereami, and it's really simple
    1.44 +
    1.45 +I'm sure you can make any MTA behave nicely when offline, but it was a chore
    1.46 +with all of them.
    1.47 +
    1.48 +...

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     2.4 +on venema: ``there'll be no second postfix'':
     2.5 +
     2.6 +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.
     2.7 +
     2.8 +cf. Tanenbaum vs. Linux: It was too early. Linux' time has not ended, but it will some day.
     2.9 +
    2.10 +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.