Fri, 20 Apr 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On 04/20/2007 03:45 PM somebody named David Brodbeck wrote: > > ken wrote: > >> 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. > > > > I don't know. It depends on how you look at it. To me it's like > > asking, "Why should I have to run a print spooler service just to > > print? Each program should talk to the printer directly, using its own > > drivers." > > > > Often it just makes sense to centralize functionality like this instead > > of requiring individual programs to carry around a lot of baggage. It's > > especially handy if you have more than one program that sends mail, > > since you only have to configure everything once, in postfix. Postfix > > isn't really acting as a server in any real sense, here; more like a > > middleman for the mail client. Hence the term "mail transfer agent." > > > > No argument. Being the original poster, I should probably repeat the > solution I was after: > > One user on one machine sends out (via a script run from a cron job) one > email per day. This user is serviced by a quite robust remote mail > server (actually a cluster of eight mail servers dispersed around the > US). For me to set up my own mail server would not likely improve the > reliability of this system. Of course there could be a network outage, > or a local problem preventing delivery. But this would be noticed by a > human at the email's destination. And there will be some kind of error > message on the source side; nail, for example, seems to return an error > code in the event of failure. > > I could be wrong, but I just don't see how one outgoing email per day > (and no incoming mail) warrants a mail server.
It doesn't. Like I said; you only need an SMTP (sending) capable program that you can feed header- and body data from stdin and that connects to the SMTP server of your choise. Either the original Sendmail, or the Postfix/Exim/Qmail drop-in can do that. No need to start an MTA from e.g. /etc/init.d Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 10.2 + Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel 2.6.18 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
