On Sunday 16 November 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/16/08 13:42, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I'm looking for a simple MTA. I have some systems that can generate > > email to users from programs like cron or mdadm and on at least 2 > > systems I currently have no MTA. I'd like to put on the simplest > > MTA I can (and that includes simple to configure) that will accept > > email from those programs and store it in the mail directory and > > act as a POP3 server so my email program can get it from those > > systems. > > I've looked at ssmtp, but that forwards email, which means I'd > > still need a mail server on at least one computer. Nullmailer > > doesn't seem to do it and other programs either don't have POP3 or > > look like a serious pain to configure. > > If this business doesn't already have a mail server, where does it's > employees get their mail from? The ISP directly?
Fetchmail pulls it in to a server from the ISP. I thought about something like ssmtp that would send the email from each system to that server, but there are reasons I wanted to just pull it from each machine. I guess I could still change my mind on that one. > -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA > > If you don't agree with me, you are worse than Hitler!!! You mean there are people who agree with you?!? Hal
