On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 02:29:21PM -0500, Bennett Todd wrote:
> 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
Thanks, I'll look for that.
With my cable modem, if my computer is on, I'm on so queueing isn't
really important to me. When I had to dial up, I found that queueing
was a pain. Sometimes late at night, I would reply to some email then
shutdown and go to bed. In the morning I'd find that the message I
thought I sent was still in the queue because I shutdown before the
queue was flushed. A definite problem if the email was about the next
days schedule.
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