Ken Hornstein writes: > - is really not all that hard, > > Robert, I have to ask ... do you read all of the messages on this list? > I can completely understand if you don't ... but I do. And I can tell > you that while there are a number of people, like yourself, who are > perfectly capabable of configuring their MTA, there's also a good number > of people who cannot, either from lack of knowledge or interest. nmh > should serve those people as well. So when you say, "really not all > that hard", you're speaking as someone who's been in and out of the deep > levels of Unix for many decades. That is not true of everyone (and I > hope it's not a nmh requirement). For many people, yes, it is too hard.
It's certainly true that running a MTA can be hard. Some are easier than others though; I use OpenSMTPD to relay to GMail, and the config is five lines long: listen on lo0 table aliases db:/etc/mail/aliases.db table secrets db:/etc/mail/secrets.db accept for local alias <aliases> deliver to mbox accept from any for any relay via tls+auth://[email protected]:587 auth <secrets> verify And thus mail(1) works, you get retry, etc. Many people don't need a MTA, but it's an option worth considering. -- Anthony J. Bentley _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
