Re: MTA in base system installation
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Philipp Hug wrote:
> Is it really necessary to have a full blown MTA in the base installation?
What the hell is a "base installation"?
> Wouldn't it make more sense to just install a simple store-and-forward proxy
> (e.g nullmailer)?
> Or are there other alternatives that just provide a sendmail wrapper?
Install whatever you want. You're free to install nullmailer, ssmtp,
etc.
Anything that Provides: mail-transport-agent; will work just fine;
ala:
courier-mta
esmtp-run
exim
exim4-daemon-heavy
exim4-daemon-light
masqmail
nullmailer
postfix
sendmail-bin
smail
ssmtp
xmail
zmailer
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