On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 09:37, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > On 10 Mar 2004 09:13:33 +1100 > Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I have an old Compaq Armada currently running Debian Woody. I will be > > travelling with it, using a dial-up connection. > > > > Question is a good lightweight MTA for it. Exim and friends seems like > > an overkill. I could use Sylpheed or some such, > > Sylpheed is a Mail User Agent. Exim etc are Mail Transport Agents. Well, yes, but it has a MTA built in so that it can be used stand alone. > > > but I would prefer to > > run text based stuff most of the time since the machine is underpowered. > > For MTA, you might want to try lightweight stuff like nullmailer. Personally, > I find Postfix light enough to use on my laptop. > > For MUA, Sylpheed is certainly pretty lightweight but if you prefer a text > interface, Mutt is a really good option. Mutt is the reason that I wanted a "proper" MTA.
Thanks, Alan > > Erik > -- > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > Orcad Express 9: "Its a nice demo but I wouldn't want to use it > on a day-to-day basis" -- me > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
