elf@florence.buici.com <elf@florence.buici.com> wrote: > I'm working on a diskless workstation configuration where I don't want > mailers running on each machine, though users may have access to the > mail spool through nfs. Is it appropriate for apt-get to coerce exim > to be installed when I only need a reader? Is this a problem about > finding the smtp agent? If you only want to send email from those workstations, and not receive any, try the package named 'ssmtp'. It provides a /usr/sbin/sendmail program to send mail, but doesn't run as a daemon and doesn't listen for inbound mail. Very nice. -- Sam "Eddie" Couter | mailto:sam@topic.com.au | I need a short and Internet Engineer | jabber:eddiesam@jabber.org | clever comment for tSA Consulting | http://www.topic.com.au/ | my .signature file OpenPGP fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C
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