On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 10:59:14AM -0600, Jorge.Lehner@gmx.net wrote: > Hello! > > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 01:52:13PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 02:56:46PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > ... > > > What I'm saying is that to must have a mail-server install, even if it is > > > just ssmtp or something like that. > > > > Yes, however the mail server should not be running as a daemon nor > > listening for incoming port 25 connections. > ... > > I checked out ssmtp and it is not what we would eventually want. It > does not deliver _any_ mail locally. > > Indeed procmail cannot deliver local mail, and I though about writing > some script which acomplishes the simple task of distinguishing > between local and remote recipients and pipe the local ones a copy via > the default delivery method, while putting the remote ones into a kind > of outgoing queue. However has it done or is faster than I, go ahead. I do not really understand what the point of this is, but if it is a small, minimal MTA, you can use masqmail. It happens that I am both up/downstream of it, so I can modify it to, say, masqmail-tiny, which does nothing but deliver mail locally, or, if required, remote via SMTP. It should not be too much work, I think. Incoming connections can be disabled, or can be done with inetd. Small drawback for masqmail is however, that it depends on libglib. I already have configure options to link that statically, increasing the size by ~30K. A pro is that it does not depend on procmail, and can deliver to mbox, maildir and an mda. Patches for MH are welcome. > Javier states it clearly, it is not necessary to have a daemon running > for this. You still need a queue running daemon for the case that the mailbox is locked, or a mail cannot be delivered for any reason. But this can also be done with a cron job. I will start a project of this kind only if I am somewhat sure that it will be used. So, give me feedback ;-). Otherwise I'll hide under my rock again. Greetings, Oliver -- debian/rules http://zork.net/~nick/srom/
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