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The Thursday 2007-04-19 at 13:28 -0400, ken wrote:
> So there are a number of solutions, two of which already work. I just
> need to implement one which does SSL.
>
> If I needed a mail server, well then, yes, I'd use it. But I don't need
> that. It just seems ridiculous to set up a mail server on every machine
> on which somebody sends out an email.
We disagree.
> The question shouldn't be "Why
> not use postfix?", but rather "Why use it?"
Because unix and linux are designed that way, to have and use it. It's
trivial, and in fact, you do have postfix installed.
> All I've heard so far are a
> couple voices that I *must* use it and loud pronouncements of disaster
> if I don't, but no specific and compelling reasons in favor of it. If
> there were such reasons, then every little email workstation would have
> a mail server running on it.
You are so convinced that you are right that you simply ignore reasons to
the contrary. This list is full of very experienced sysadmins, and you are
ignoring their advice. In fact, you re trying to reinvent the wheel.
> Joachim was retreating from his claim that I needed to set up a mail
> server, articulating a mouthful of theory that all I needed really was
> an MTA (mail transfer agent). Trying to bring the conversation back to
> practical reality, I was asking what/which MTA software package this was
> that I'd need to install. :)
No, he hasn't retreated from what he said. He is just saying that by
installing and using an MTA, part of the software installed in a Mail
Server Computer, you do not make that particular computer a Mail Server.
He is retreating from the conversation as useless.
You need to transfer email from your machine to another machine, and
that's precisely the task of the MTA. And an MTA is installed by default on
all SuSE distros: be it servers, workstations, home computers, everything.
You want to do it without? Well... do as you wish, it's your system.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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