On 10/14/08 17:21, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
H.S. wrote:Hello, I am tying to see which mail server to install so that I can send emails via scripts using Gmail (preferable) or Yahoo smtp servers. I haven't setup email servers yet. Which one I go for (on Debian and Ubuntu)? Exim4, postfix, or perhaps msmtp? The last one I learned from here: http://phosphorusandlime.blogspot.com/2008/05/ubuntu-command-line-email.html If people have done this kind of stuff before, any insights or points I should keep in mind? The objective is to send emails unattended via scripts.exim and postfix are overkill if you just want to send mails to a smarthost. msmtp could do the job; another option is esmtp.
But then you can't receive local (intra-system) mail.Postfix and exim4 may be heavier than esmtp, but Postfix on my system is only 5.7MB of RAM. Compared to Iceweasel, Icedove, GNOME, etc, etc, it's positively light-weight.
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