David DeSimone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Scott V. McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Any ideas on not using a full blown MTA for outgoing mail? It seems
> > like overkill to run sendmail (or even qmail) on a single user system
> > when all I need is a program to look like sendmail but immediately
> > send mail to my isp's smtp server.
> What if your ISP's mail servers are down? Then you can't send mail
> anymore, until they come back. If you run a local MTA, it can bypass
> the ISP's servers, and go directly to the remote mail server.
nullmailer has a queue and will send the mail when the smarthost comes back
up.
Yes, running a local MTA is good for some things. It's not necessary for
others. If we have, say, fifty Unix boxes here in our development areas,
we don't need to run a full MTA on all of them. We can run nullmailer on
each one, pointing at our main SMTP/POP3 mailhost.
There's other solutions, as well.
Charles
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