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Re: Mail transfer agent

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On 2020-09-24 18:19, Brian wrote:
> 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,2) take mail from mutt and
>> send it to my ISP via smtp3) take messages from the system, eg: cron
>> and deliver them to that same mailbox4) take a simple message on the
>> CL such as:    echo 'blah' | mail -s 'oops' noone@example.com
>> 
>> I've been using exim for years and it works well but is overkill for
>> my needs.
> 
> I too have been using exim for years in a similar way to the way you
> describe. It does the job very well and I just let it get on with it.
> I don't really understand what you mean by "overkill" and think you are
> fussing over nothing.

I know how I get mail.
I've been using roundcube for a few years. I know I put in the SMTP 
server, account and password for being allowed in the configuration but 
I actually have no idea what is used for the sending. I probably should.

mick



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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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