On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Willie Wong <ww...@math.princeton.edu>wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 09:57:42PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > Some time ago, it appears, postfix stopped working for me. I am no > longer > > able > > to use it to send mail (usually to my ISP, where it gets routed). > > > > Do you actually need a full blown mail server? If you just relay your > mail to your ISP, then you may be able to simplify your life using > something like nbsmtp. > > I used to take mail locally, via sendmail, since I stopped using uucp around 1987. When I found out about postfix, it was good riddance to those re-write rules. Then I simplified by sending it all to the ISP so I now have just 3 mail spools: 1) gmail for all my mailing lists because they'll let me spool forever it seems -- my quota is over 7GB and I'm using maybe 30% after about 8 years. This is stuff were privacy doesn't matter to me. 2) My ISP, because it's more reliable than I can do at home. 3) Work, which I can't avoid. At home I stuck to Postfix because until now it never gave me a lick of trouble. I'm pretty old and no longer get much joy out of learning yet another tool for its own sake. It's gotta be LOTS better than what I have. In the last year I've only taken on m4, Fireworks and Dreamweaver. There are good enough reasons for each. If I were a few decades younger, this would have been good advice, so thanks for the tip. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
