> On a quest to see what's involved with that, I found the manual > (http://www.sendmail.org/doc/sendmail-current/doc/op/op.pdf). Queue files, > data files, oh my. There doesn't appear to be any practical way to use this > on an embedded system any longer without quite a bit more study.
A MTA (mail transfer agent) is a whole subsystem with its own needs and peculiarities; it needs to be precisely tailored and configured for the use you have of it. It is quite unlikely that you need to run a full-fledged MTA on an embedded box. However, if you do, stay the hell away from sendmail. You will have an easier time with qmail (or netqmail now), which uses extremely few resources (unlike all other MTAs out there, including Postfix. I know the choice of a MTA is a highly religious issue, but as far as the embedded world is concerned, there is just no serious competition.) It is way more likely that you will just need to produce mail locally and send it to a preconfigured SMTP server. In that case, look at things like nullmailer or ssmtp, which will be far easier (and lighter) to set up and use than a complete MTA. -- Laurent _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
