On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:41:25PM +0300, Teemu Ikonen wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a mail transfer agent for a typical workstation, > laptop or simple server configuration, but so far I haven't found a > suitable one either in Debian or elsewhere. The ones I've checked are > either too simple (nullmailer, ssmtp) or too complex (exim and > everything else). > > I think what an average workstation user or (non-mail) server > administrator wants from an MTA is following: > > 1. The MTA is not a daemon and does not receive mail from the network > > 2. Mail is sent to external addresses via an smtp relay > > 3. If the smtp host cannot be contacted, the mail is queued. > Retransmission is tried hourly by a cron-job or similar. > > 4. No local delivery of mail (mail sent to local accounts is either > discarded, or sent to the users external address found from a mail > alias file) > > And optionally > > 5. The mail to UIDs under 1000 (i.e. root) is also appended to a flat file > in /var/log or similar > > Does Debian have something which could be easily bent to follow these > requirements, or do I have to write one myself? > > All the best, > > Teemu > > PS. I'm not on the list, so please send replies also to me, thanks.
Hi Teemu,
I'm not too sure if it would suit you, but masqmail does a good job for
me, epsecially for 3., it is run by /etc/ppp/ip-up on connection.
For receiving I use fetchmail which is also run at connection time.
It runs as a daemon, which is however configurable, after a quick look
at the man page.
Hth,
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