Re: New Mail Sent to different mailboxes - bypassing MTA
Scott V. McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas on not using a full blown MTA for outgoing mail? It seems like overkill to run sendmail (or even qmail) on a single user system when all I need is a program to look like sendmail but immediately send mail to my isp's smtp server. Try nullmailer by Bruce Guenter: http://www.em.ca/~bruceg/nullmailer/ It looks like a full MTA to programs that use it, but it relays everything to (one of a set of) smart hosts/relays you specify -- typically your ISP or your company mailhost. It works well, and has a great design behind it. Charles -- Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
Re: New Mail Sent to different mailboxes - bypassing MTA
Scott V. McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas on not using a full blown MTA for outgoing mail? It seems like overkill to run sendmail (or even qmail) on a single user system when all I need is a program to look like sendmail but immediately send mail to my isp's smtp server. What if your ISP's mail servers are down? Then you can't send mail anymore, until they come back. If you run a local MTA, it can bypass the ISP's servers, and go directly to the remote mail server. -- David DeSimone | "The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | that there is no man really clever who has not Hewlett-Packard | found that he is stupid." -- Gilbert K. Chesterson UX WTEC Engineer |PGP: 5B 47 34 9F 3B 9A B0 0D AB A6 15 F1 BB BE 8C 44
Re: New Mail Sent to different mailboxes - bypassing MTA
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 01:54:30PM -0600, David DeSimone wrote: Scott V. McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas on not using a full blown MTA for outgoing mail? It seems like overkill to run sendmail (or even qmail) on a single user system when all I need is a program to look like sendmail but immediately send mail to my isp's smtp server. What if your ISP's mail servers are down? Then you can't send mail anymore, until they come back. If you run a local MTA, it can bypass the ISP's servers, and go directly to the remote mail server. -- David DeSimone | "The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | that there is no man really clever who has not Hewlett-Packard | found that he is stupid." -- Gilbert K. Chesterson UX WTEC Engineer |PGP: 5B 47 34 9F 3B 9A B0 0D AB A6 15 F1 BB BE 8C 44 I agree that this is nice. It looks as though nullmailer that people mentioned above will queue, so thats taken care of. As for going directly to the remote server, problems with that earlier today are what got me reading this list again and figuring out how to relay my mail through my isp. In the past I've had mail refused from my box, which has a dynamic IP, because its name wouldn't resolve. I fixed that by getting a .dyndns.org account. Then today a message was refused by a computer that uses the ORBS blacklist which says that there are too many open relays on .rr.com. Interestingly if I forward through my isp's server which is on .rr.com it goes through. Go figure. -- Scott V. McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key available at http://physics.syr.edu/~svmcguir GnuPG key fingerprint: 21EA 4999 3620 3E1D 71EC 98A9 5B9B EF52 1258 6D53 GnuPG is at http://www.gnupg.org/
Re: New Mail Sent to different mailboxes - bypassing MTA
David DeSimone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott V. McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas on not using a full blown MTA for outgoing mail? It seems like overkill to run sendmail (or even qmail) on a single user system when all I need is a program to look like sendmail but immediately send mail to my isp's smtp server. What if your ISP's mail servers are down? Then you can't send mail anymore, until they come back. If you run a local MTA, it can bypass the ISP's servers, and go directly to the remote mail server. nullmailer has a queue and will send the mail when the smarthost comes back up. Yes, running a local MTA is good for some things. It's not necessary for others. If we have, say, fifty Unix boxes here in our development areas, we don't need to run a full MTA on all of them. We can run nullmailer on each one, pointing at our main SMTP/POP3 mailhost. There's other solutions, as well. Charles -- Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions.
