[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>I recently got to use a freeware smtp server "Advanced SMTP" on >>windows. Once You connect to the net using dialup The program must be >>run and You can send email directly from your machine to the >>recipient's server without making use of goatelecom smtp server. >> >>Is there any such application for Linux or is there a way to configure >>sendmail postfix or exim to do the same? > > > That is what the default configurations of the above MTAs do. Please read > up the FAQs for each of the MTAs...
qmail is another one of them. http://www.qmail.org, http://www.lifewithqmail.org - lwq is an excellent guide, and setting up according to the way mentioned there will leave yu with almost an enterprise class mission critical email solution, in your home pc, and its not difficult configuring it (as opposed to sendmail). > But why not use goatelecom's smtp > server? Why run something on your machine when someone else is willing to > do it for you? perhaps maybe yu need more control. yu want to be cent percent sure that the mail has been delivered to the other end and there are not dependent on your isp's smtp server. maybe because yu connect to different isps, and changing the smtp servers is a big hassle everytime yu wish to send emails. maybe because your isp (e.g. vsnl.com, mantraonline.com) do not allow @someotherdomain.com except their own domains (@vsnl.com), maybe it is a real pleazure watching the queue and see "DONE" (in qmail queue) when the mail has been delivered to a certain address ;) -- \|||/ (o o) --------------------------------ooO-----(_)-Ooo- | vivek | GPG Key: | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://exain.net/vike | |------------------------------------------------| | Registered Linux User: #305493 | ------------------------------------------------ ( _ ) _| | | |_ (___| |___) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
