also sprach Alexander Clouter <alexander.clouter@ic.ac.uk> [2002.01.28.1732 +0100]:
> > i run postfix bound to localhost on my laptop even, and then use
> > fetchmail to obtain all my mail via pop3/ssl. this way, all my mail is
> > always local, and i don't need imap.
> >
> 'nullmailer' I use for outgoing mail. Its a braindead smtp queue which polls
> remote servers until it finds one that accepts a connection at which point it
> empties its spool. This is especially useful if you are in many different
> environments (laptop users do) and so the servers you use are different.
> This works seemlessly and if I go somewhere new I just add the local smtp
> server to the polling list and it sorts its self out. :)
>
> This in combination with 'whereami' makes for a *very* automagic system.
postfix keeps mail in the spool for five days by default. since i also
have a couple of machines on permanent connections, i decided to use
TLS-based certificate relay authentication and simply relay my mail
through a machine in philadelphia whenever and whereever i am.
a simply queue flush everytime i am connected, and this has no need to
be automagic ;)
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