Re: how to setup mail server to use (Yahoo|Gmail) smtp servers

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 10/15/08 00:55, Sebastian Günther wrote:
> * Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson@cox.net) [15.10.08 03:22]:
> > But then you can't receive local (intra-system) mail.
> Well, you can't receive mails on the system, but you can receive all 
> system mails, because they are sent via msmtp to your smarthost.
>
> On a Desktop system you normally do not need local email accounts, imho.

I get system emails from cron when ntpdate can't find an ntp server 
(like when the net link is down), and from apt-listchanges and 
cron-apt when things go wrong on the other end.

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