On Thursday, April 2, 2020 6:18 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Then DO NOT use sendmail. Sendmail is only for the ultra-professional > who already knows how to configure it (not joking). > > If all your mail gets sent via a single SMTP server at your ISP (or > wherever), then Sendmail is definitely not what you want. > > If you don't need local queueing (so you can send email while > offline), then I'd pick ssmtp. NB: ssmtp is a bit old and in need of > a ebuild maintainer, so might not be my first choice if I wasn't > already familiar it. > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSMTP > > Nullmailer is also a good option with the added bonus of queueing > outbound mail while you're offline.: > > https://github.com/bruceg/nullmailer > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nullmailer > > If you want something even more sophisticated (e.g. something that can > deliver mail locally and receive inbound mail using SMTP), then postfix > or exim would probably the be the next step up: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Postfix > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Postfix > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Exim > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Exim > > I've read claims that there are things you can do with sendmail that > Exim or Postfix can't handle, but I'm not sure I believe it. I am > sure I'll never need to do any of those things. thanks a lot for this info. highly appreciated. i'll go with nullmailer (imo suits me best). though i'm a bit curious about sendmail (if your time allows). do you mean the ebuild "sendmail"? or the command "sendmail"? i used to think it's a swiss-army kind of tool (used to call "sendmail" in my cgi scripts decades ago without any infrastructure; by just directly zapping recipient's smtp gateway).
