On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Richard C. Steffens <[email protected]>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. > you should not have to set up either postfix nor exim just to send emails out. > > My question is whether this has any effect on my use of Thunderbird for > the rest of my e-mail activity. > it should not. I can't imagine any way that it would, anyway. > > 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. > I would prefer something more simplistic. I'm afraid I don't have any good options for you off the top of my head. I hope someone else does. On my system, I use a little util called "sendemail" which just automatically forwards locally submitted stuff to my relay host. It doesn't even stay running and listen on the network. I don't really remember how it works beyond that. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
