On 13Oct2013 21:56, miro <miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr> wrote: > (****) while I spent weeks on postfix, and I do have some understanding now > of it: it is a great program!, I wasn't able to configure it for just smtp > (no smtpd, I don't need that at this time), because some things are really > hidden in very ample documentation and not easy to phathom... so much so that > I went on a rampage of learning stunnel and particular configuration of > /etc/default/saslauthd-root_postfix that needed to talk to > /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux socket or what not... and still > didn't get things to work... And on the other hand I got this sSMTP program > to work in a matter of hours...
Just to address postfix: I run a local postfix, with the critical configuration line: relayhost = 127.0.0.2:1025 which points at an ssh tunnel, which connects to my preferred SMTP server (ssh to home server, port forward to its mail system). This is my solution for a mobile host (my laptop): it delivers via the ssh tunnel to my home server which as a static relayhost to my home ISP. The nice thing about a local postfix is that the mail queue of unsent email (i.e. I am offline when composing it) is readily visible with the mailq command, and mutt doesn't need to care about online/offline; it just delivers locally via sendmail. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> Squidliness is next to DoDliness. - Ancient Tibetan Proverb
