Re: how to set up alternate SMTP server

[Thomas Roessler]

On 1999-10-07 03:46:59 -0200, Frederic L . W . Meunier wrote:

> I'm sorry, but I don't think implementing this would be a bad idea.

We don't believe it's necessary.

The Debian GNU/Linux folks have a nice program called ssmtp, which
gives you a simple SMTP client which imitates sendmail's command
line.  Note that you don't have to wade through binary packages,
just go for

        ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/source/mail/ssmtp*

or something like this.  You get the idea.

Installation of this smtp client is quite simple, as is compiling it.

In addition, you can _very_ easily configure postfix for a simple
client site.