On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:29:56AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > 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
Good for you! I know. And actually I was close to succeeding with postfix... (found an old message with a reply from server telling why it didn't send the message... but it got the message)... But for now, I can't bother. I'm killed by so much work to get even this far... Cheers!
