James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> 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.
This is exactly why I have squirrelmail running on my server. I can access my
email from anywhere I have an internet connection. I don't understand the
complaint from Lan about squirrelmail. I use it all day, every day, and it
works fine. Occasionally I have to downgrade to mutt because squirrelmail has
a problem, usually with an attachment.
> 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.
I have servers that send me email using ISP's servers. It's pretty simple with
Postfix you just have to set the right $myhostname and $relayhost, that's it.
Everything should just work after that. You don't even have to have the server
process running.
> 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.
mailx is not a mail server. But that doesn't mean you can't run without one.
If you only want to send postfix has a replacement for /usr/sbin/sendmail
which is the command line method for sending messages. I think if you have
sendmail configured properly and use mailx, it should automatically find the
sendmail binary if the address is outside the host, and send the mail. Someone
will correct me if it's wrong, but AFAIK it uses /usr/sbin/sendmail -t to send
out without a running server.
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