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Robert Welz wrote: |
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> Introducing myself I run a small public web and mailserver with |
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> Gentoo-XEN and I am continually improving my architecture. Now I don't |
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> know how to get all the cronjob messages and Hardware failures to my |
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> imap server without running lot's of postfix instaces. |
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Not sure what you mean here - a well-designed MTA will not run more |
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threads than it needs to deliver. |
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> ssmtp seems to silently drop the outgoing mail into a dead-letter file |
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> somewhere in the /root folter so when my network is down or my primary |
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> mailserver fails so I will never get noticed about problems with my |
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> hardware/software/cronjobs. |
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> So I am looking for a basic smtp server,too but it must have its own |
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> mail queue. |
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In other words, you're looking for an MTA. |
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I'd suggest Exim, as it is very easy to set up, and quite small (it will |
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run happily on a P-100 with thousands of messages per day) |
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> Any advice would be welcome. My tool shoul try to resend messages in |
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> intervals or the like and it shoud save my valuable resources (small, |
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> leightweight). |
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Again, basic functions of an MTA. |
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www.exim.org |
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