On 2001-05-16 17:01:16 +0200, Dumas Patrice wrote:
>It is my opinion, and I am not a sysadmin, but if I were ;-), I
>wouldn't like sendmail or even postfix to be installed on
>workstations, as I think it is bad and unusefull in a classical
>LAN architecture. sSMTP is a good replacement, but has to be
>configured by root.
First of all, there may be quite a few reasons why you want to have
something like /usr/sbin/sendmail on a Unix workstation, even if no
instance of sendmail is listening on port 25. (Actually, I have
occasionally been using ssmtp for this.)
Second, ssmtp doesn't have to be configured by root - there is
nothing in this program which requires privileges, so it should be a
trivial exercise to hack ssmtp to read its configuration file from,
say, ~/.ssmtprc.
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Thomas Roessler http://log.does-not-exist.org/
