Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
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

Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-16 Thread Douglas Tutty
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

Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-15 Thread Matthew Krauss
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

Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-15 Thread Rob Bochan
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 -- To

Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
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,

Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-14 Thread Rob Bochan
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

Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-14 Thread John Hasler
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

cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-13 Thread 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 does? I'm interesting in using it to keep

Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-13 Thread John Hasler
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

Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-13 Thread Rob Bochan
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

Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-13 Thread John Hasler
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