On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 03:50:13PM -0600, McKown, John wrote: > There is some discussion about not wanting SendMail due to it's "many > exploits". Also, the thought was "why implement an MTA when we're not > receiving any mail, just sending it."
Sending is transport too. If you want the barest of MTAs to connect to a relay and nothing else, try ssmtp. That will turn any /usr/sbin/sendmail-using program into the sort of thing that you want, including /bin/mail. Make sure that's what you want, though; sometimes you want a real MTA even if you don't think that you do. For example, ssmtp doesn't even have a local queue; if it can't talk to the relay, it will fail immediately. -- - mdz
