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Re: A simple MTA?



Teemu Ikonen wrote:
> The ones I've checked are either too simple (nullmailer, ssmtp) or
> too complex (exim and everything else).

    Nut sure why you say the above.

> 1. The MTA is not a daemon and does not receive mail from the network

    Nullmailer.

> 2. Mail is sent to external addresses via an smtp relay

    Nullmailer.

> 3. If the smtp host cannot be contacted, the mail is queued.
>    Retransmission is tried hourly by a cron-job or similar.

    Nullmailer.

> 4. No local delivery of mail (mail sent to local accounts is either
>    discarded, or sent to the users external address found from a mail
> alias file)

    Nullmailer.

>    And optionally

> 5. The mail to UIDs under 1000 (i.e. root) is also appended to a flat file
>    in /var/log or similar

    Not sure if Nullmailer does this but you did say it was optional.  So
Nullmailer fits your needs yet it is too simple?

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