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From: Oliver Friedrich <beowulfwork@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:15:08
Message-Id: 43673127.9050104@gmx.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop by Tom Eastman
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4 Tom Eastman wrote:
5
6 > Hey guys,
7 >
8 > I know there must be a bunch of these out there, but there's always
9 > a problem with signal-to-noise for this kind of question.
10 >
11 > I have a laptop, from which I would like to be able to send mail
12 > whenever I feel like it. This laptop is only occasionally
13 > connected to the internet, and has very low resources (so memory
14 > resident daemons are less favourable).
15 >
16 > So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so
17 > that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it
18 > stores it in a queue.
19 >
20 > When I'm connected to a network, I can then manually dump the queue
21 > onto the smtp server *of my choice*, since the server would very
22 > depending on where I'm plugged into.
23 >
24 > Some kind of command like:
25 >
26 > $ sudo dump_all_mail_to smtp.wherever.i.am.net
27 >
28 > Does such a program exist? Really I'm just looking for something
29 > like ssmtp, but with a queue.
30 >
31 > Any ideas?
32 >
33 > Thanks!
34 >
35 > Tom
36 >
37 Just found... look at "mail-mta/esmtp"
38
39 http://esmtp.sourceforge.net/
40
41 It will do deliver on user based configuration,queueing for
42 dial-up-connections and local delivery via MDA.
43
44 Greets BeowulfOF
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