On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:49:58 +0100 Klaus Ethgen <kl...@ethgen.de> wrote: > The (I think, not so uncommon) usecase is to have a laptop with no > persistent internet connection. For local Mails I want to have a local > only mail server. So I need something to flush real mails out when I > have a internet connection. ssmtp is absolutely fine for this job but > unfortunately installing ssmtp would remove the local delivery daemon.
I think you should reconfigure your existing local delivery daemon to support flushing to the external smarthost on demand. This should be doable without ssmtp. The existing local delivery daemon is perfectly able to deal with intermittent internet access already.
