Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 23:15 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 10/14/08 21:15, H.S. wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >
> >
> > Interesting. Couldn't I have both, exim4 and msmtp? I ask because I am
> > trying out msmtp's configuration on my computer which already has exim4
> > installed for local delivery. In the computer where I eventually intend
> > to install the feature, there is going to be just msmtp.
>
> I don't see how, since they should both listen to ${HOSTNAME}:25.
The little ones don't; the point is they don't receive mail. They just
offer the sendmail command-line interface to get mail off to a
smarthost. If a program can (needs to) talk to port 25, it can talk to
the smarthost directly.
Richard
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