Re: why use sendmail?
On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 02:00:36PM +0100, Simon Hepburn wrote:
| John Lord wrote:
|
| > Hi folks,
| >
| >
| > Just a simple question realy, why should I use sendmail in conjunction with
| > KMail, rather than let KMail do the job?
|
| It depends on you situation
|
| If you are running a standalone box with dialup connection and you get your
| mail through your ISP, I would just let KMail handle remote mail for you. Put
| simply, it's a lot less hassle. Just configure exim to do local mail delivery
| for the benefit of cron and friends. This will save you a lot of time and
| confusion.
FYI it is almost trivially easy to set exim up with "smarthost"
delivery. It becomes trivial when you are given the answers to the
questions about relaying. I posted step-by-step instructions on this
list a few months ago. If you want I can dig up the URL (I'm in
console now and the bookmark is in galeon).
-D
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