> 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. >
Both of these would be overkill for your purposes and you will likely to have your email blacklisted if you try sending from a residential address. Indeed I think Comcast will just block your traffic before it gets anywhere, or at least divert port 22 traffic to their mail server. You should look at SSMTP (Simple SMTP) which is designed explicitly for the type of task you want. It's easy to set up and allows you to use authenticating SMTP servers as a relay. ( I have it setup for a local reminder script and it takes all of 6 lines of config to relay out via google from any network I plug into.) Description: extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a mail hub A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to your mail hub. It contains no suid-binaries or other dangerous things - no mail spool to poke around in, and no daemons running in the background. Mail is simply forwarded to the configured mailhost. Extremely easy configuration. WARNING: the above is all it does; it does not receive mail, expand aliases or manage a queue. That belongs on a mail hub with a system administrator. Homepage: http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/ssmtp.html Paul M _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
