*- On 21 Dec, Steve Lamb wrote about "Re: MTA" > Tuesday, December 21, 1999, 9:14:31 AM, Joe wrote: >>> I never liked smail or exim, and sendmail seems like overkill for a >>> small site. > >> Count me in as another vote for postfix. I used to run qmail back when >> I still ran RedHat, but switched to postfix a few months before I >> switched to Debian. > >> postfix is a lot easier to configure and has the advantage of being >> designed from the beginning for security. > > Personally I think any MTA is too much of an overkill for off-line > reading/replying of email. Personally I think the MUA should have an option > to defer the mail and then have a command-line option to have it deliver to a > configured SMTP server, supplied by the ISP, who then performs delivery from > there. But, hey, what do I know. >
The MUA Tkrat does this. It is tcl/tk based and does allow you to defer all messages and then send them out(via a menu selection) whenever you want to a smtp host. I personally don't use this feature but it is there. Version 1.2 is currently packaged for Debian and 2.0 beta5 is available from http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~maf/ratatosk/. There are also several MTA's designed for dial-up accounts that don't have all the advanced features of sendmail, smail, exim, qmail, etc. Masqmail being one that I am curious about which is packaged for potato. Haven't tried it as I don't have time to deal with a change in MTA config right now. But it does look interesting as it is meant to work with ppp and the ip-up scripts. Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
