On Tuesday 13 January 2009 14:29:59 Greg Michalski wrote: > I'm running 8.10 server as a home file and print server. I'm looking for > the most basic of mail transfer agents capable of handling the sending of > routine reports and status information scheduled through cron via email to > an account on my ISP and don't want or need a full fledged, resource > hogging mail server. Therefore during install I only selected Print > server, Samba File server and OpenSSH server (for headless administration). > Now I'd like to have the ability to have remote knowledge of some system > stats when I'm not around to SSH in and check on things myself. I don't > need to receive any emails on the server - only send things out. >
I use postfix for that, sending throught gmail using SMTP-AUTH en SSL/TLS, I have a howto about that (in spanish) that you use: http://tuxjm.net/2008/11/26/postfix_como_enviar_correo_a_traves_de_un_servidor_externo_usando_sasl_y_tls/ > Browsing through the Ubuntu packages list, sSMTP looks like a good > solution. Does anyone have experience with it and am I right in my > interpretation of the description here : > http://www.linux.com/feature/132006 in reading that it meets my needs > stated above? It reads like it's very easy to setup and in effect I only > have a single user. > > Any comments/suggestions/flaming appreciated. :) > > Greg > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, > and ammo. Please use in that order." - Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > www.distinctperspectives.com -- Jorge Armando Medina Computación Gráfica de México Web: www.e-compugraf.com Tel: 55 51 40 72 email: [email protected] GPG Key: 1024D/28E40632 2007-07-26 GPG Fingerprint: 59E2 0C7C F128 B550 B3A6 D3AF C574 8422 28E4 0632
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