James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Gus has implied that I don't need it at all. Is this true?
Not sure. I'd like to hear opinions from mail-gurus -- especialy those
who use laptops a lot. And from those latter, what special
considerations might there be regarding offline work habits.
I'd like to hear general recommendations for users behind NAT who use
their ISP's (or some other external provider's) mail services. I assume
this represents a relatively huge fraction of users.
Then, there might be a need for a breakdown into users who don't do
anything fancy (Aunt Tilly users), and users who like to get into
trouble [uno hoo] by running _interesting_ programs -- in particular,
things that send mail (eg /bin/mail, even).
From time to time I tried not running an MTA on the basis of minimizing
services, but I always ran into difficulties when doing command line
stuff with /bin/mail -- so I fell back into running the service.
Regards,
..jim (needs de-confusing as much as LB, maybe more)
You do not need an MTA on a laptop. I've had mine (sendmail) turned off
ever since I got the thing over three years ago. You can also turn off
just about everything else that Fedora has running without any harm.
Lan uses Squirrel Mail which is a web interface that talks to some
remote mail service that I believe is IMAP running on one of Neil's
servers. No MTA is required or desired on the laptop.
As far as mailing logs goes, turn that off also. It's a waste of time
and effort. If you have a problem with the laptop, look at the logs
right then and there.
Gus
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