Robert Thorsby wrote:
If you intend your ISP to be your "real" mailserver then there is no need for you to set up any of the Big 4 as your internal mailserver. In fact, mutt (and most other MUAs) have a setting "sendmail=..." or similar that simply gets interpreted as "send the mail using sendmail/postfix/exim/qmail", thus using a sledgehammer to crack walnuts. You can use **any** deliver-only utility for this -- the only problem occurs when you try to "send" via mutt (or whatever) when offline -- most deliver-only utilities do not have a queueing or queue-flushing function.
The problem with this is that these days you need to use an upstream smtp server as opposed to being one yourself to get the message delivered correctly. A lot of MTA's these days refuse to accept messages from the "home-server" type MTA which forces people to use their ISP's SMTP, but in the case of some bigpond accounts (namely dynamic ip address accounts), it forces all messages to go out as if from the bigpond email address of the conneciton account - not very useful when you have your own domain.
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