Re: Mail transfer agent

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Mail transfer agent
Date	2020-09-24 17:10 +0200
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On Thu 24 Sep 2020 at 13:35:17 (+0000), mike.junk.46@att.net wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, 09:14:42 PM CDT, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:  
>  mutt is an MUA, not an MTA. 
> 
> What tasks do you want your mail server to perform? Please be
> specific. We will have better advice for you once we know
> exactly what you want to have happen.
> -dsr-
> Thanks, Dan,All I need from an MTA is:
> 1) take mail from fetchmail and put it in a mailbox for mutt to display,

I thought that's what fetchmail did, and what mutt can do,
the difference being that fetchmail would put them onto your
system while you slept, whereas mutt would fetch them on demand.

> 2) take mail from mutt and send it to my ISP via smtp

I covered that in my previous post.

> 3) take messages from the system, eg: cron and deliver them to that same mailbox

dma might be enough for doing that.

> 4) take a simple message on the CL such as:    echo 'blah' | mail -s 'oops' noone@example.com

I use mailx (in mailutils), but mutt can also do it.

> I've been using exim for years and it works well but is overkill for my needs.

Size or complexity? The size of the binary is comparable with mutt.
Granted, there's more documentation, but one barely need touch it
for the above.

Cheers,
David.

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Mail transfer agent "mike.junk.46@att.net" <mike.junk.46@att.net> - 2020-09-24 03:50 +0200
  Re: Mail transfer agent Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-09-24 04:20 +0200
    Re: Mail transfer agent "mike.junk.46@att.net" <mike.junk.46@att.net> - 2020-09-24 16:00 +0200
      Re: Mail transfer agent David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-24 17:10 +0200
      Re: Mail transfer agent Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-09-24 19:20 +0200
        Re: Mail transfer agent mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-09-24 23:30 +0200
          Re: Mail transfer agent Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-09-25 10:00 +0200
            Re: Mail transfer agent mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-09-25 11:40 +0200
  Re: Mail transfer agent David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-24 04:40 +0200
  Re: Mail transfer agent Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-09-24 09:00 +0200

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