Re: New Mail Sent to different mailboxes -> bypassing MTA

[Bennett Todd]

2000-01-13-14:27:28 Scott V. McGuire:
> Any ideas on not using a full blown MTA for outgoing mail?  It
> seems like overkill to run sendmail (or even qmail) on a single
> user system when all I need is a program to look like sendmail but
> immediately send mail to my isp's smtp server.

That's easy to do if you want it; the package you're looking for is
ssmtp. But I definitely prefer having an MTA locally; I can enqueue
email when I'm not logged in, and have it go out the door as soon as
I hook up. I can be sending email when I'm dialed up, and having the
connection drop doesn't lose any email, nor hang my MUA.

-Bennett

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