On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 14:45:58 +0100 Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> wrote:
> 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. Nullmailer queues. It doesn't perform some other SMTP functionalities, but it queues. You can see it happen by ls'ing the queue directory while sending a bunch of email with it. I've never been able to have Nullmailer deliver messages to my local machine, probably because I just don't know how. SteveT Steve Litt December 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
