Eray Aslan posted on Wed, 26 Dec 2012 09:46:17 +0000 as excerpted: > The current default mta in gentoo - ssmtp - has a more or less dead > upstream and has some outstanding bugs. It is prudent to change our > default mta. > > Both mail-mta/nullmailer and mail-mta/msmtp are lightweight good mtas. > Both packages have active development and provide AUTH and SSL/TLS > support.
I've wondered about this for some time, and now seems as good a time/ place to ask as any. Is there any "system-mailer" app that doesn't actually mail anything anywhere, nor run constantly as a daemon, that is simply invokable as sendmail when needed, to take a message, format it appropriately, and drop it in some local dir (preferably configurably as maildir, mh-format, mbox, etc) where a mail client can read it as a local account? No need to run constantly or to have actual network connectivity of any sort, just to be invokable when needed. I ended up creating a script that handles it here, but it'd be great if I could find a proper package that handled that, presumably with a few more features than the hacked up script I came up with. Seems to me if there is such a thing, that'd be a great option to be recommended in the handbook, for those who don't want to send the mail off to the ISP/MSP (to be examined by crackers, three-letter agencies, or simply rogue admins at the ISP/MSP), just to pick it up with their mail client running on the same machine that sent it in the first place! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
