Re: MTA

[Matt Garman <garman@netins.net>]

On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 01:42:27PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
> I'll be moving and will lose my direct Internet connection, and will have to
> resort to dial-up. To prepare for this, I am switching over to doing mail
> and news offline (slrnpull, fetchmail), but I need some ideas on what to use
> for outgoing mail. I've had sendmail die on me when I'm not connected to a
> network (not in Debian, though, haven't tried sendmail in Debian), so I
> wonder what the best setup is for outgoing mail when it is only to send mail
> when I connect to the ISP (and directly when I do that, preferrably without
> manual intervention).

I've found postfix to be my favorite mta thus far.  It's configuration
is very easy.  There is now a debian package of postfix.  I did a
/usr/local install, though, because I was previously unaware of the Deb
package.

I have postfix setup to defer messages until I explicitly flush the
outgoing mail queue.  I have a simple script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ that
flushes the queue automatically whenever I make a ppp connection.

I never liked smail or exim, and sendmail seems like overkill for a
small site.

MG

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