MTA recomendations?
I'm seting up a new woody box for my wife to use. I need a recomendation on an easy to set up, reliable MTA. Heres the setup, the box will realy all outgoing mail through a local ISP. It will run fetchmail to retireve mail from that ISP, which will then call procmail to use SpamBouncer, which will in turn call the MTA to deliver mall to a local mailbaox. It will be read using elm (or perhaps mutt). I would think this was a failry common stup. Oh, BTW user names on the local box do not map directly to user names at teh ISP, so I need for the MTA to rewrite the sender on the way out, and I need for it to understamd that mail for, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is really for the local user sandi. Thanks for any sugestions on this, as this Christmas present is runig a bit behind schedule, and I'm getting a lot of flack from te local user community :-) -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: MTA recomendations?
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:55:59PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: I'm seting up a new woody box for my wife to use. I need a recomendation on an easy to set up, reliable MTA. Heres the setup, the box will realy all outgoing mail through a local ISP. It will run fetchmail to retireve mail from that ISP, which will then call procmail to use SpamBouncer, which will in turn call the MTA to deliver mall to a local mailbaox. It will be read using elm (or perhaps mutt). I would think this was a failry common stup. Oh, BTW user names on the local box do not map directly to user names at teh ISP, so I need for the MTA to rewrite the sender on the way out, and I need for it to understamd that mail for, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is really for the local user sandi. Thanks for any sugestions on this, as this Christmas present is runig a bit behind schedule, and I'm getting a lot of flack from te local user community :-) I'd recommend qmail (fast, reliable, secure) or postfix (fast, reliable, secure, easy to configure (or so I'v heard - haven't tried it yet)). http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html, http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ http://www.postfix.org/ mf (Did you hear that? Sounds like a flamewar coming) -- The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway. pgpwtAupFiRhE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: MTA recomendations?
On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 19:55, Stan Brown wrote: I'm seting up a new woody box for my wife to use. I need a recomendation on an easy to set up, reliable MTA. Heres the setup, the box will realy all outgoing mail through a local ISP. It will run fetchmail to retireve mail from that ISP, which will then call procmail to use SpamBouncer, which will in turn call the MTA to deliver mall to a local mailbaox. It will be read using elm (or perhaps mutt). I would think this was a failry common stup. Oh, BTW user names on the local box do not map directly to user names at teh ISP, so I need for the MTA to rewrite the sender on the way out, and I need for it to understamd that mail for, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is really for the local user sandi. exim. Configure on installation using option (2) (or later with eximconfig), put the addresses to be rewritten into /etc/email-addresses and you're set. It's the default MTA of debian, too -- I did not vote for the Austrian government
Re: MTA recomendations?
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.31.2000 +0100]: I'd recommend qmail (fast, reliable, secure) or postfix (fast, reliable, secure, easy to configure (or so I'v heard - haven't tried it yet)). qmail? qmail? oh, wait... (Did you hear that? Sounds like a flamewar coming) yeah. nevermind. but on a serious note, while i think that there are really no alternatives to postfix, the more i look at exim, the more i like it. i am slowly beginning to think that it's better for workstations. for servers, i would still recommend postfix (or qmail - they have very little differences - read my post from about a week ago). -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] the intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. it is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. -- oscar wilde pgppjY3HDFwPP.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: MTA recomendations?
Also take a look at the ssmtp package. T. On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 13:55, Stan Brown wrote: I'm seting up a new woody box for my wife to use. I need a recomendation on an easy to set up, reliable MTA. Heres the setup, the box will realy all outgoing mail through a local ISP. It will run fetchmail to retireve mail from that ISP, which will then call procmail to use SpamBouncer, which will in turn call the MTA to deliver mall to a local mailbaox. It will be read using elm (or perhaps mutt). I would think this was a failry common stup. Oh, BTW user names on the local box do not map directly to user names at teh ISP, so I need for the MTA to rewrite the sender on the way out, and I need for it to understamd that mail for, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is really for the local user sandi. Thanks for any sugestions on this, as this Christmas present is runig a bit behind schedule, and I'm getting a lot of flack from te local user community :-) -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] 843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ssmtp for Hylafax? (Was: Re: MTA recomendations?)
On 31 Jan 2002 15:10:52 -0500, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 13:55, Stan Brown wrote: I'm seting up a new woody box for my wife to use. I need a recomendation on an easy to set up, reliable MTA. Also take a look at the ssmtp package. I am interested in this particular package for use with a PC we've got configured as a Hylafax server. I would like a bare bones MTA that would only have to handle outgoing mail to the fax admin at first, mailing received faxes for distribution. It may also have to accept some incoming faxes as email later if I select that option instead of the network print option. As a new Debian user, the simpler the better. Would ssmtp for a good fit for my situation? Are there any other MTAs that would be a good choice? TIA Kevin B.
Re: MTA recomendations?
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Stan Brown wrote: I'm seting up a new woody box for my wife to use. I need a recomendation on an easy to set up, reliable MTA. exim. -- Baloo
Re: MTA recomendations?
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:55:59PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: | I'm seting up a new woody box for my wife to use. I need a | recomendation on an easy to set up, reliable MTA. I like exim. The docs are _excellent_ and the config is easy to work with. -D -- Whoever gives heed to instruction prospers, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord. Proverbs 16:20
Re: MTA recomendations?
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 08:00:56PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:55:59PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: I'm seting up a new woody box for my wife to use. I need a recomendation on an easy to set up, reliable MTA. I'd recommend qmail (fast, reliable, secure) or postfix (fast, reliable, secure, easy to configure (or so I'v heard - haven't tried it yet)). http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html, http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ http://www.postfix.org/ mf (Did you hear that? Sounds like a flamewar coming) Nah. But let me point this out: - I'm a big qmail advocate. - He doesn't need to become a kickass postmaster. He just needs a simple MTA. - He runs Debian. - Debian's default MTA is exim, and comes with a preconfiguration that exactly matches his needs. -dsr-
Re: ssmtp for Hylafax? (Was: Re: MTA recomendations?)
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 02:33:28PM -0700, Kevin Beauchamp wrote: | On 31 Jan 2002 15:10:52 -0500, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: | On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 13:55, Stan Brown wrote: | | I'm seting up a new woody box for my wife to use. I need a recomendation on | an easy to set up, reliable MTA. | | Also take a look at the ssmtp package. | | I am interested in this particular package for use with a PC | we've got configured as a Hylafax server. I would like a | bare bones MTA that would only have to handle outgoing | mail to the fax admin at first, mailing received faxes for | distribution. It may also have to accept some incoming | faxes as email later if I select that option instead of the network | print option. As a new Debian user, the simpler the better. | | Would ssmtp for a good fit for my situation? | Are there any other MTAs that would be a good choice? ssmtp is good IF : 1) no local delivery desired, ever 2) no queueing and retyring desired, ever I used ssmtp for quite a while while I was stuck on windows (I used mutt with it on cygiwn). Now I know that exim is available for cygwin. ssmtp implements the bare minimum of the SMTP protocol such that it can hand messages off to a designated relay. If you want better error handling (queueing and retrying if the relay is temporarily down, local deliveries (from cron, etc), and things like that) then use a full-blown MTA. -D -- the nice thing about windoze is - it does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'ok' first.
