Am 2006-11-13 11:52:45, schrieb Rob Bochan:
I'm interested in the cron-apt package.
Is anyone aware if there's any way for it to send a message to an external
mail (i.e. to a gmail account, etc.) without having an MTA installed on the
machine? Perhaps some settings like the reportbug package
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:52:45AM -0500, Rob Bochan wrote:
I'm interested in the cron-apt package.
Is anyone aware if there's any way for it to send a message to an external
mail (i.e. to a gmail account, etc.) without having an MTA installed on the
machine? Perhaps some settings like the
Rob Bochan wrote:
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 10:32, Dave Sherohman wrote:
An MTA is nothing. Really. ...
I appreciate the reply, but it's not a solution for me. In fact, it's one I
explicitly don't want. I do the occasional Linux install for fairly clueless
folks who own older
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 13:53, Matthew Krauss wrote:
It seems too obvious, but have you looked at update-notifier?
I have. It's still a bit of overhead on an fvwm based desktop, especially all
the dependencies, but it would seem to be about the only other solution.
...Rob
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 04:31:38PM -0500, Rob Bochan wrote:
Besides the config and security hassles of it, the machine's a P2-300 with 64
meg ram. The GUI bogs it down enough, I can't imagine running an MTA on it as
well.
An MTA is nothing. Really. I ran 5 domains (including mail, DNS,
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 10:32, Dave Sherohman wrote:
An MTA is nothing. Really. ...
I appreciate the reply, but it's not a solution for me. In fact, it's one I
explicitly don't want. I do the occasional Linux install for fairly clueless
folks who own older hardware, and I'm not going to
Rob writes:
I do the occasional Linux install for fairly clueless folks who own older
hardware, and I'm not going to subject them to the the headaches and
overhead of running unnecessary services, especially a mail server.
A server that is not running incurs no overhead. On a home pc the MTA
I'm interested in the cron-apt package.
Is anyone aware if there's any way for it to send a message to an external
mail (i.e. to a gmail account, etc.) without having an MTA installed on the
machine? Perhaps some settings like the reportbug package does? I'm
interesting in using it to keep
Rob Bochan writes:
I'm interested in the cron-apt package. Is anyone aware if there's any
way for it to send a message to an external mail (i.e. to a gmail
account, etc.) without having an MTA installed on the machine?
You probably want nullmailer.
Perhaps some settings like the reportbug
On Monday 13 November 2006 15:26, John Hasler wrote:
You probably want nullmailer.
I wasn't aware of that package, I'll look into it.
Settings? Reportbug does its own SMTP.
It can also store and use SMTP settings (i.e. ISP's SMTP server) if no MTA is
installed
What's with this horror of
I wrote:
Settings? Reportbug does its own SMTP.
Rob Bochan writes:
It can also store and use SMTP settings (i.e. ISP's SMTP server) if no
MTA is installed
Those settings are the information needed by reportbug's internal MTA to
connect to the ISP's server via SMTP.
I wrote:
What's with
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