[Exim] Re: just a helping hint

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Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian
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To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] Re: just a helping hint
+++ Greg Ward [exim-users] <14/09/01 13:01 -0400>:
> Finally, you probably don't really need a full-blown MTA for this sort
> of thing. (I've used both qmail and Exim for my home PC, and both are
> massive flaming overkill. But it's fun to learn...) I think there's a
> program called ssmtp that will do what you want. Hmmm... looks like it
> doesn't act as an SMTP server, which could be troublesome with
> fetchmail. Whatever.


Fetchmail using procmail as the mda solves that. However, I don't know if
ssmtp queues mail when offline - I prefer to use an MTA (listening on
127.0.0.1 perhaps) for that.

    -suresh
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