On Tue, March 13, 2012 11:49, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > I wrote: > >> ... but still have to figure out what MTA to install. > > Google tells me that Postfix is the default MTA for Ubuntu 10.04. It > also mentions "Configuring Exim to serve as a lightweight, send-only > SMTP server" as another option. > > My question is whether this has any effect on my use of Thunderbird for > the rest of my e-mail activity. > > And the second question, is one of those two programs "preferred" over > the other? Both of them are available through Synaptic and so, in > theory, shouldn't be too hard to set up. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
You might also look at SSMTP as an alternative to a full MTA since all you want is outbound email. It's very easy to configure and can authenticate on your behalf against various SMTP servers (to include google, which I use, and probably comcast - but you would need to test that to verify that it will actually work in your case). It's also available in the Ubuntu repositories. Tim -- Timothy J. Bruce visit my Website at: http://www.tbruce.com Registered Linux User #325725 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
