On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 02:44:00PM +0200, David Suna wrote: > I have an Ubuntu machine that I am using to develop PHP based web > application. I now need to configure it so that PHP can send out mail. The > default seems to be to install sendmail. However, I have seen comments that > sendmail is overkill and some references to ssmtp.
The main difference is that ssmtp and nullmailer (and other similar "sendmails") don't queue. This greatly simplifies them. > > What would be the recommended way to configure this? Sendmail, ssmtp or > something else? I tried using ssmtp for some servers. It lacked too many basic features. Nullmailer came closer. I don't recall the specific issues now, though. But I ended up using either postfix. Or even exim4 in some cases where I didn't bother. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
