Re: Mail transfer agent
On Thu 24 Sep 2020 at 13:35:17 +0000, mike.junk.46@att.net wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, 09:14:42 PM CDT, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> mutt is an MUA, not an MTA.
>
> What tasks do you want your mail server to perform? Please be
> specific. We will have better advice for you once we know
> exactly what you want to have happen.
> -dsr-
> Thanks, Dan,All I need from an MTA is:1) take mail from fetchmail and
> put it in a mailbox for mutt to display,2) take mail from mutt and
> send it to my ISP via smtp3) take messages from the system, eg: cron
> and deliver them to that same mailbox4) take a simple message on the
> CL such as: echo 'blah' | mail -s 'oops' noone@example.com
>
> I've been using exim for years and it works well but is overkill for
> my needs.
I too have been using exim for years in a similar way to the way you
describe. It does the job very well and I just let it get on with it.
I don't really understand what you mean by "overkill" and think you are
fussing over nothing.
--
Brian.
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