On 11/16/08 20:10, Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Sunday 16 November 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/16/08 13:42, Hal Vaughan wrote:
I'm looking for a simple MTA. I have some systems that can generate
email to users from programs like cron or mdadm and on at least 2
systems I currently have no MTA. I'd like to put on the simplest
MTA I can (and that includes simple to configure) that will accept
email from those programs and store it in the mail directory and
act as a POP3 server so my email program can get it from those
systems.
I've looked at ssmtp, but that forwards email, which means I'd
still need a mail server on at least one computer. Nullmailer
doesn't seem to do it and other programs either don't have POP3 or
look like a serious pain to configure.
If this business doesn't already have a mail server, where does it's
employees get their mail from? The ISP directly?
Fetchmail pulls it in to a server from the ISP. I thought about
something like ssmtp that would send the email from each system to that
server, but there are reasons I wanted to just pull it from each
machine. I guess I could still change my mind on that one.
Having the "some systems" route their email to the mail server
certainly is the standard solution. But if there's some odd but
overriding reason to keep them off the mail server, then for the
sake of consistency I'd use the same MTA on the "some systems" as I
do on the mail server.
That, though, seems that it would only be a valid strategy if the
"some systems" generated *highly* confidential emails, and I don't
think that mdadm generates highly confidential emails. Anyway,
highly confidential emails should be encrypted.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
If you don't agree with me, you are worse than Hitler!!!
You mean there are people who agree with you?!?
Only those who are right-minded...
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
If you don't agree with me, you are worse than Hitler!!!
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