On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 02:14:33PM +0100, Thomas Pircher wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > mutt won't let me go back and edit the subject line. > > Hi Mark, > > Yes, have a look at the dma or nullmailer packages. There used to be > more of these programs in Debian (ssmtp, for example), but on my system > (Buster) only those two seem to have survived. >
Thanks, of those dma looks like a perfect match and nullmailer also would work. > You could also use one of the big MTAs and configure them to listen to > local connections only, and/or block the SMTP ports with a firewall, but > both dma and nullmailer do their job just fine. Besides, they are much > simpler to configure. > Yes, I could -- but I'd feel safer in the presence of my own capacity for stupid mistakes using a piece of software that just can't listen for mail, in this particular scenario. So dma or nullmailer both fit the bill. I will pore over their docs as well as sSMTPs and see what comes out the best. Thanks a lot for your help Mark
