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| From | Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Mail transfer agent |
| Date | 2020-09-24 19:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <ASD4t-5OC-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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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,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. -- Brian.
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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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