On Monday 08 Jun 2015 23:45:36 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 11:47:04AM +0200, Marc Joliet wrote > > > So my question is: what is your preference, nullmailer or msmtp > > (or neither?), and why? > > I'm still using ssmtp. It still works. I look at it this way... > there's no more development being done, because it's already perfect > <G>. It'll go into background mode if an email is sent, and the > receiving MTA doesn't accept within approx 45 seconds or so.
It doesn't work for all cases. If you use symbols in your email password the login fails. I tried escaping them, but have not been successful and found that it is a bug. > I also like the fact that there's one config file. Well, there' also the revaliases file. > My dialup script > (emergency backup when ADSL is down) runs su to copy over the ssmtp.conf > file with the dialup ISP's MTA. When I sign off, the "dialdown" script > runs su to copy over the ssmtp.conf file with the ADSL ISP's MTA. -- Regards, Mick
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