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On 2020-04-02, Caveman Al Toraboran <toraboracaveman@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:20 AM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> Normally the mail program works by execing /usr/sbin/sendmail to to the |
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>> hard part :-P Do you have it? It doesn't have to be the "real" |
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>> sendmail - any MTA program you install usually makes a symlink from |
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>> /usr/sbin/sendmail to itself. |
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> i got sendmail around. but didn't do any configurations. |
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> what's the minimum configuration to do? i'm really not planning |
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> anything ultra-professional. |
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Then DO NOT use sendmail. Sendmail is only for the ultra-professional |
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who already knows how to configure it (not joking). |
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If all your mail gets sent via a single SMTP server at your ISP (or |
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wherever), then Sendmail is definitely not what you want. |
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> i hope it to send an email the shameless style (just send an smtp |
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> message to the smtp server where my email is hosted) |
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If you don't need local queueing (so you can send email while |
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offline), then I'd pick ssmtp. NB: ssmtp is a bit old and in need of |
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a ebuild maintainer, so might not be my first choice if I wasn't |
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already familiar it. |
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSMTP |
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Nullmailer is also a good option with the added bonus of queueing |
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outbound mail while you're offline.: |
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https://github.com/bruceg/nullmailer |
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nullmailer |
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If you want something even more sophisticated (e.g. something that can |
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deliver mail locally and receive inbound mail using SMTP), then postfix |
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or exim would probably the be the next step up: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Postfix |
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Postfix |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Exim |
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Exim |
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I've read claims that there are things you can do with sendmail that |
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Exim or Postfix can't handle, but I'm not sure I believe it. I am |
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sure I'll never need to do any of those things. |
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Grant |
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