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Eray Aslan posted on Wed, 26 Dec 2012 09:46:17 +0000 as excerpted: |
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> The current default mta in gentoo - ssmtp - has a more or less dead |
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> upstream and has some outstanding bugs. It is prudent to change our |
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> default mta. |
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> Both mail-mta/nullmailer and mail-mta/msmtp are lightweight good mtas. |
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> Both packages have active development and provide AUTH and SSL/TLS |
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> support. |
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I've wondered about this for some time, and now seems as good a time/ |
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place to ask as any. |
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Is there any "system-mailer" app that doesn't actually mail anything |
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anywhere, nor run constantly as a daemon, that is simply invokable as |
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sendmail when needed, to take a message, format it appropriately, and |
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drop it in some local dir (preferably configurably as maildir, mh-format, |
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mbox, etc) where a mail client can read it as a local account? No need |
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to run constantly or to have actual network connectivity of any sort, |
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just to be invokable when needed. |
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I ended up creating a script that handles it here, but it'd be great if I |
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could find a proper package that handled that, presumably with a few more |
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features than the hacked up script I came up with. |
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Seems to me if there is such a thing, that'd be a great option to be |
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recommended in the handbook, for those who don't want to send the mail |
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off to the ISP/MSP (to be examined by crackers, three-letter agencies, or |
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simply rogue admins at the ISP/MSP), just to pick it up with their mail |
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client running on the same machine that sent it in the first place! |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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