Stephan, This looks it hits my peeve right on the nose. Thanks for the pointer, I'd never heard of this before. I'll have to try it out on my laptop to see how well it works.
Regards, Gary Stephen Hahn wrote: > * Gary Gendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-22 00:51]: > >> Playing devil's advocate... >> >> What I'd really like to do is revisit the need for a sendmail service >> running on non-servers. I understand that currently some mail service >> is required in order to deal with messages from cron and other >> services. However, does this make any sense on a laptop where the >> user is using an MUA like Thunderbird, Evolution, or a Webmail client? >> >> As a minimalist by nature, it just seems wrong to waste resources for >> such a seldomly used service. Instead, wouldn't it make more sense to >> provide a sendmail alternative that would launch a mail forwarded upon >> request rather than have something running all the time? >> >> To this end, I propose to find a replacement for sendmail that will >> only be launched when called through sendmail, mailx, etc. interfaces >> and quit when the email has been sent. >> > > Last I considered this, msmtp > > http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/ > > looked promising. > > >> It would be nice to allow the choice of mail services (sendmail, >> postfix, qmail, nullmailer, <direct method above), etc.) rather than >> be forced into choosing sendmail. >> > > Yes, although I think that could be treated separately from the above > goal. > > - Stephen > >
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