* Gary Gendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-22 00:51]: > Playing devil's advocate... > > What I'd really like to do is revisit the need for a sendmail service > running on non-servers. I understand that currently some mail service > is required in order to deal with messages from cron and other > services. However, does this make any sense on a laptop where the > user is using an MUA like Thunderbird, Evolution, or a Webmail client? > > As a minimalist by nature, it just seems wrong to waste resources for > such a seldomly used service. Instead, wouldn't it make more sense to > provide a sendmail alternative that would launch a mail forwarded upon > request rather than have something running all the time? > > To this end, I propose to find a replacement for sendmail that will > only be launched when called through sendmail, mailx, etc. interfaces > and quit when the email has been sent.
Last I considered this, msmtp http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/ looked promising. > It would be nice to allow the choice of mail services (sendmail, > postfix, qmail, nullmailer, <direct method above), etc.) rather than > be forced into choosing sendmail. Yes, although I think that could be treated separately from the above goal. - Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
