On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:53:57PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > pushmail aims to be the opposite of fetchmail. It can be used to push email > > messages to an SMTP server without the need of configuring the local MTA. > > Initially wrote for the MUA mutt, but it should be possible to integrate it > > in any other MUA that allows you to set the sendmail program to use. > > How is pushmail better than ssmtp, which sounds like it does the same > thing, and also Provides: mail-transport-agent?
You have already the answer. ssmtp is an MTA, and pushmail (see the description above) allows to push mail *without* an MTA. ssmtp sends mail to your mail hub, only mail to your configured mail host; pushmail allows different "pushes", with different servers, different ports, different authentication methods, *SSL* support, per user configuration, pre-exec. Look at pushmail man page for details. Christian -- Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. -- Woody Allen
