On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 04:33:03PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Another example. We have three mail servers in the book: sendmail, postfix, > and > exim. How many people really need any mail server? My system has: > > $ cat /usr/bin/sendmail > #!/bin/bash > # sendmail dummy > echo $@ > > Gereral desktop users really only need email clients like Thunderbird or > mutt. > Sometimes you need a way to send mail out only via a script but that is > generally a limited situation, but a full blown mail server requires a > publicly > available IP address and few people have that. Given that, why maintain > three > different servers? We really don't have a decent way to fully test mail > servers. Right now Leafnode (NNTP) needs an update. I don't know how to > test > that or even if anyone uses NNTP any more.
On my server, I use postfix to send mail via my isp, virginmedia, (my ntlworld.com address), for which the IP address is whatever dhcp address their hub happens to be using at the moment. On my desktops, I use postfix to send fcron mails to my server. If I only had one machine, I would use postfix on it (my gmail address is primarily for mail that might come as html). ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
