On 2020-04-03, Grant Taylor <gtay...@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
> (20)ProTip: You really do want local outbound queueing /somewhere/ on box. > > You don't want your web application to error out when it can't reach > it's SMTP server. You don't want t loose that receipt for the > transaction that the customer just made. Can you regenerate the > receipt? ;-) If you've got any sort of non-interactive "server" type applications that need to send mail, then you _definitely_ want local queueing -- and probably decent logging capabilities and local delivery of problem notification e-mails. I only use ssmtp for situations where mail is only sent by an application I'm interacting with and where I can _see_ that the send failed and can save/postpone the message while I fix whatever's broken that caused the failure. > But I really object to the "ultra-professional" comment, because > everybody has to start somewhere. If you want to become an ultra-professional, that's fine. If you just want to be able to send mail interactively from mutt... OK, that's a bad example now that mutt has built-in SMTP client capabilities. -- Grant
