Re: New Mail Sent to different mailboxes -> bypassing MTA

[David DeSimone]

Scott V. McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Any ideas on not using a full blown MTA for outgoing mail?  It seems
> like overkill to run sendmail (or even qmail) on a single user system
> when all I need is a program to look like sendmail but immediately
> send mail to my isp's smtp server.

What if your ISP's mail servers are down?  Then you can't send mail
anymore, until they come back.  If you run a local MTA, it can bypass
the ISP's servers, and go directly to the remote mail server.

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