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