On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 02:51:17PM -0500, Scott V. McGuire wrote:
> 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.
that's also why anything other than a smarthost setup on a dialup is
bad... I used to mail my parents at AOL and find that I wasn't on at
the same times that AOL was feeling like accepting mail, so my mail
wouldn't always make it.
for a dialup the best solution is queueing with smarthost, and a forced
queue run in the ppp-up script.... but that's beyond the capabilities of
the new user to set up correctly, so ssmtp works (especially when
dealing with users that are insistent that they have to be online to
write mail).
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