Thank you for all your replies and suggestions - they were greatly appreciated.
I am using dial-up email and would like to setup a cron job to 1) Dial in to the server, 2) Retrieve any messages (probably via getmail4 or similar) and 3) Send any queued messages. So I'm looking into using msmtpq (a script for use with msmtp) with mutt. Are there any suggestions for which MTA would be most suitable for this purpose (sending queued messages on a system that is not online when composing messages)? Thanks. On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 21:31:33 +1100 Erik Christiansen <dva...@internode.on.net> wrote: >On 03.02.17 09:47, Chris Green wrote: >> ... and if you're on a distribution where Postfix is the standard >> that's also pretty easy to set up. I personally prefer Postfix from >> the ease of configuration point of view. > >+1 > >(It also has a Sendmail compatibility interface, so that we old folks >could move over painlessly. But now my muscle memory is Postfix oriented.) > >> I use Postfix and both send and receive mail using SMTP as my desktop >> machine is on all the time. Thus I have no need for POP3/IMAP mail >> collection. > >As my machine is shut down each night, I use fetchmail to bring mail in >via POP3. It has served me well for several decades now. > >Erik
