Re: [gentoo-user] msmtp vs. nullmailer

[Guy-Laurent Subri]

Hi, I like to use msmtp. I actually never tried nullmailer, but msmtp
seemd a great choice. For the queue "issue" I can redirect you to a
document created by a Gentoo dev on mutt [0].

Guy-Laurent Subri

[0] https://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/mail.html
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 11:47:04AM +0200, Marc Joliet wrote:
>Hi list,
>
>As part of removing now superfluous server functionality on my desktop, I
>replaced postfix with msmtp (and removed a bunch of other software).  However,
>the portage default for virtual/mta is nullmailer.  (I also switched my laptop
>from ssmtp to msmtp since ssmtp upstream has long been dead and has thus fallen
>out of favour with Gentoo devs [0].)
>
>Now, my reasoning for choosing msmtp was that development seemed more active.
>The last release of nullmailer was in 2013, while msmtp has had a release or
>two this year already.  However, the nullmailer repository [1] has shown a bit
>of activity since the last release, though it looks fairly minor to me.
>
>However, the one thing that annoys me is that msmtp does not seem to have any
>sort of queue [2], so if it can't deliver an email, it must be resent, which is
>annoying for system emails.  Now, I read that nullmailer has a queue (at both
>[2] and [3]).
>
>So my question is: what is your preference, nullmailer or msmtp (or neither?),
>and why?  Is there anything that speaks against nullmailer, other than its
>(seemingly) slow development?
>
>[0] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450812
>[1] https://github.com/bruceg/nullmailer/commits/master
>[2] http://sourceforge.net/p/msmtp/mailman/message/649420/
>[3] http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/nullmailer/
>
>--
>Marc Joliet
>--
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