Hello,
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
> Gilles Chehade is
> developing a SMTPD implementation but it will take around 6 more months I
> think.
> For now please stick to Postfix or Sendmail. Both are bad. Postfix
> does not have a good license
> and sendmail is too complex. Exim of course is worse.
> Anyway this is what you need to do to send mail assuming that your MTA
> does its job.
If all you want to do is _send_ mail by connecting to another SMTP server
then why do you need to run these smtp daemons?
Just use something like "msmtp".
For example, to send mail via gmail using mutt I have:
1. In .muttrc I have 'set sendmail = '/usr/bin/msmtp -a gmail'
2. In .msmtprc I have:
account gmail
host smtp.gmail.com
auth on
user [email protected]
password enter_your_password_here
port 587
from [email protected]
tls on
Similar settings can work for other smtp daemons that allow remote
access.
The nice thing is that this does not need root privilege. The only
thing required is that your account can make outgoing network
connections on port 587 to smtp.gmail.com
Hope this helps you avoid things you do not seem to like!
Kapil.
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