Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 04:33:03PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Another example. We have three mail servers in the book: sendmail, postfix, >> and >> exim. How many people really need any mail server? My system has: >> >> $ cat /usr/bin/sendmail >> #!/bin/bash >> # sendmail dummy >> echo $@ >> >> Gereral desktop users really only need email clients like Thunderbird or >> mutt. >> Sometimes you need a way to send mail out only via a script but that is >> generally a limited situation, but a full blown mail server requires a >> publicly >> available IP address and few people have that. Given that, why maintain >> three >> different servers? We really don't have a decent way to fully test mail >> servers. Right now Leafnode (NNTP) needs an update. I don't know how to >> test >> that or even if anyone uses NNTP any more. > > On my server, I use postfix to send mail via my isp, virginmedia, > (my ntlworld.com address), for which the IP address is whatever dhcp > address their hub happens to be using at the moment.
Yes, but how many others still use mutt? If you use a gui mail client, you don't need a separate mail server. > On my desktops, > I use postfix to send fcron mails to my server. If I only had one > machine, I would use postfix on it (my gmail address is primarily for > mail that might come as html). That's what most of the need is -- outgoing only to a host on the same network. It's a pretty simple setup and certainly doesn't need the complexity of, say, sendmail. The incoming mail on your main server is a pretty simple setup too. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
