While postfix is downhill, I've used esmtp when I wanted less, much less. r...@venus:/home/tarvid/downloads# apt-cache show esmtp Package: esmtp Priority: extra Section: universe/mail Installed-Size: 148 Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-m...@lists.ubuntu.com> Original-Maintainer: José Fonseca <j_r_fons...@yahoo.co.uk> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.6.0-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.6.1-1), libesmtp5 (>= 0.8.8), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 Recommends: esmtp-run Suggests: procmail | maildrop | deliver Filename: pool/universe/e/esmtp/esmtp_0.6.0-1_i386.deb Size: 40690 MD5sum: 02da26961c83f5e0750c9bbfe513224c SHA1: f9c5e3b70dc6746bd6c2d7165479d03267c4cf98 SHA256: 3fe0d15d41f94f1caba1c02a89eb445d67d251050655de9ee20aba13f1c99cf0 Description: User configurable relay-only MTA ESMTP is a user configurable relay-only Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) with a sendmail-compatible syntax. It's based on libESMTP supporting the AUTH (including the CRAM-MD5 and NTLM SASL mechanisms) and the StartTLS SMTP extensions. . ESMTP does not receive mail, expand aliases or manage a queue but can deliver mail locally via an MDA. . This package contains the esmtp program. Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com Origin: Ubuntu
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Jorge Armando Medina < jmed...@e-compugraf.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 13 January 2009 14:29:59 Greg Michalski wrote: > > I'm running 8.10 server as a home file and print server. I'm looking for > > the most basic of mail transfer agents capable of handling the sending of > > routine reports and status information scheduled through cron via email > to > > an account on my ISP and don't want or need a full fledged, resource > > hogging mail server. Therefore during install I only selected Print > > server, Samba File server and OpenSSH server (for headless > administration). > > Now I'd like to have the ability to have remote knowledge of some system > > stats when I'm not around to SSH in and check on things myself. I don't > > need to receive any emails on the server - only send things out. > > > > I use postfix for that, sending throught gmail using SMTP-AUTH en SSL/TLS, > I > have a howto about that (in spanish) that you use: > > > http://tuxjm.net/2008/11/26/postfix_como_enviar_correo_a_traves_de_un_servidor_externo_usando_sasl_y_tls/ > > > Browsing through the Ubuntu packages list, sSMTP looks like a good > > solution. Does anyone have experience with it and am I right in my > > interpretation of the description here : > > http://www.linux.com/feature/132006 in reading that it meets my needs > > stated above? It reads like it's very easy to setup and in effect I only > > have a single user. > > > > Any comments/suggestions/flaming appreciated. :) > > > > Greg > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, > jury, > > and ammo. Please use in that order." - Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > > > www.distinctperspectives.com > > > > -- > Jorge Armando Medina > Computación Gráfica de México > Web: www.e-compugraf.com > Tel: 55 51 40 72 > email: jmed...@e-compugraf.com > GPG Key: 1024D/28E40632 2007-07-26 > GPG Fingerprint: 59E2 0C7C F128 B550 B3A6 D3AF C574 8422 28E4 0632 > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam > -- http://ls.net http://drupal.ls.net
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