On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:15:16PM -0700, Steven Farrier wrote: | I am using a Debian Linux computer which does not have its own domain, is | behind a DSL connection and has a few users. | | Would a MTA be useful to me?
Yes, as Karsten said. A full-blown MTA such as exim, sendmail, postfix, etc, would be useful for the system to send you messages when it needs to (ie cron jobs failing). If all you want is to be able to send mail out to the rest of the world (using, for example, mutt as your MUA) then 'ssmtp' would suffice for accepting mail from a MUA and relaying it out to your ISPs SMTP server. ssmtp is easy to configure, but exim is better for a real *nix system (meaining not cygwin). -D
