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Hello again, |
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it's no secret that I'm partial to the Exim MTA and I love to teach it |
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new tricks. However running Exim on a workstation (mobile or not) is |
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serious overkill. Exim compares to sendmail in power but also in the |
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complexity of its configuration. Most of this power is wasted when all |
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it's doing is delivering output from cron and at. Perhaps more |
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importantly, though, it tends to assume its host is always online and |
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DNS is available to resolve arbitrary domain names; this can cause |
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misbehavior when the assumption fails. I just made a change in the |
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configuration and suddenly my desktop started stalling for 20 seconds on |
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boot; my investigation, which was longer than I'd have liked, showed |
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that it was due to dnsmasq trying to answer a query from Exim - and |
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failing because the network interface was not fully up when the query |
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was made. |
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I know that there's a number of "minimal" MTAs which are supposedly |
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suitable for the workstation role - such as nullmailer or ssmtp. But, |
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they all seem to want to completely avoid dealing with local mailboxes |
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and deliver everything to a hub server. What I need is just the |
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opposite - a mailer that is completely ignorant of networking but |
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understands mail store formats and local aliases so it can deliver |
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output from daemons, even if no network is available. Is there any such |
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thing? Of course a gentoo package would be great but I can |
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self-maintain too if necessary. |
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And if you don't know of one, I'd like to hear how you deal with this. |
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