On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:39:41AM -0700, Mark Barnes wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:31:09PM -0400, Ignasi Palou-Rivera wrote: > > > > That's not too clear. smtpd is not any specific program, but several > > can be used to provide the service. > > The program I use is called ssmtp or sometimes sSMTP. Its available > as a deb package. It's far less powerful than exim, but easier to > configure. By the way, I found that exim did not work without some > additional configuration beyond that provided by the installation > script. It's do-able, even for boneheads like me, but requires some > quality time spent going through the docs, and a journeyman-level > understanding of email terminology.
That's strange. I've been able to use exim by just using the standard debcong configuration with a variety of ISPs. I'm sure it's not the case for more involved cases, but for a single computer using one ISP is normally very doable. -- Ignasi.
