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On Monday 18 October 2004 2:49 pm, 韡武 张 wrote:
> Hello. I am not asking what's the BEST easiest MTA, because it is a stupid
> question.
>
> I am now using ssmtp but the mailhub is not always available (and ssmtp is
> not able to queue). So I wish I could set up my own MTA on my notebook.
> Because I am behind NAT firewall, it is not necessary to let the MTA
> receive emails.
>
> Now, what's the MTA for me? I wish to pick up the easiest, because I am
> busy and I don't want to take a long learning curve. The MTA does not have
> to be able to receive/forward anything, just sending is okay.
>
> Qmail, Exim, postfix, sendmail, courier ... None of them seems easy to me:(

postfix fits really into my needs, I used sendmail before, for a long time,
and though I can say, postfix is much easier to setup and administer than the
other one. qmail, exim... hmmm.... I'm not that friend of them. courier?
well, I once tried it out where the smtp part weren't that stable but it may
have changed by now, however, I'm using there POP3/IMAP server with
postfix ;)

Regards,
Christian Parpart.

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韡武 张 wrote:
> Hello. I am not asking what's the BEST easiest MTA, because it is a stupid
> question.
>
> I am now using ssmtp but the mailhub is not always available (and ssmtp is
> not able to queue). So I wish I could set up my own MTA on my notebook.
> Because I am behind NAT firewall, it is not necessary to let the MTA receive
> emails.
>
> Now, what's the MTA for me? I wish to pick up the easiest, because I am busy
> and I don't want to take a long learning curve. The MTA does not have to be
> able to receive/forward anything, just sending is okay.
>
> Qmail, Exim, postfix, sendmail, courier ... None of them seems easy to me:(

It is very easy to setup any of those MTA's just for sending. All you
have to do is to emerge them, make shure that they listen on port 25,
and put your own IP in relaying list. Than in your mail client put
localhost as SMTP server and you are set.

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韡武 张 wrote:
> Hello. I am not asking what's the BEST easiest MTA, because it is a stupid
> question.
>
> I am now using ssmtp but the mailhub is not always available (and ssmtp is
> not able to queue). So I wish I could set up my own MTA on my notebook.
> Because I am behind NAT firewall, it is not necessary to let the MTA receive
> emails.
>
> Now, what's the MTA for me? I wish to pick up the easiest, because I am busy
> and I don't want to take a long learning curve. The MTA does not have to be
> able to receive/forward anything, just sending is okay.
>
> Qmail, Exim, postfix, sendmail, courier ... None of them seems easy to me:(

I just glanced over the portage. I think nbsmtp, ssmtp, esmtp are not my
cup of tea? Because they all need a mailhub, that means another working
smtp server is necessary.

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On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, [UTF-8] é^_¡æ­¦ å¼  wrote:

> Hello. I am not asking what's the BEST easiest MTA, because it is a stupid
> question.
>
> I am now using ssmtp but the mailhub is not always available (and ssmtp is
> not able to queue). So I wish I could set up my own MTA on my notebook.
> Because I am behind NAT firewall, it is not necessary to let the MTA receive
> emails.
>
> Now, what's the MTA for me? I wish to pick up the easiest, because I am busy
> and I don't want to take a long learning curve. The MTA does not have to be
> able to receive/forward anything, just sending is okay.
>
> Qmail, Exim, postfix, sendmail, courier ... None of them seems easy to me:(

nullmailer is like ssmtp, except it queues and logs.

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Khan wrote:
> 韡武 张 wrote:
>
>> Hello. I am not asking what's the BEST easiest MTA, because it is a
>> stupid
>> question.
>> I am now using ssmtp but the mailhub is not always available (and
>> ssmtp is
>> not able to queue). So I wish I could set up my own MTA on my notebook.
>> Because I am behind NAT firewall, it is not necessary to let the MTA
>> receive
>> emails.
>>
>> Now, what's the MTA for me? I wish to pick up the easiest, because I
>> am busy
>> and I don't want to take a long learning curve. The MTA does not have
>> to be
>> able to receive/forward anything, just sending is okay.
>> Qmail, Exim, postfix, sendmail, courier ... None of them seems easy to
>> me:(
>
>
> It is very easy to setup any of those MTA's just for sending. All you
> have to do is to emerge them, make shure that they listen on port 25,
> and put your own IP in relaying list. Than in your mail client put
> localhost as SMTP server and you are set.
If what you said is true...
Look at this: (size of source)
Qmail 336KB
exim 1.7MB
sendmail 2.1MB
postfix 2.4MB
courier 4.1MB

Because I prefer simple, lightweight, perhaps I need QMail? I think I'll
use it. But, I prefer the MTA use system account. I guess qmail must be
able to do it:)

This surprised me:
xmail 390KB
xmail is so small, with so many features described in description: it
include both MTA and MDA, and a finger server. Perhaps this means xmail
is not mature?
But wait! Xmail does not conflict with ssmtp that installed on my
system. Perhaps this means it could not be used as a drop-in replacement
of sendmail?

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From what I understand from the ones we looked at:

Sendmail is horrible. QMail is good but quirky. No idea about the others.

We use Postfix mainly because when we started we wanted something easy to
setup and administer. So I would say postfix and administer via Webmin.

Kevin.


On Monday 18 October 2004 14:50, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
Khan wrote:
> 韡武 张 wrote:
>> Hello. I am not asking what's the BEST easiest MTA, because it is a
>> stupid
>> question.
>> I am now using ssmtp but the mailhub is not always available (and
>> ssmtp is
>> not able to queue). So I wish I could set up my own MTA on my notebook.
>> Because I am behind NAT firewall, it is not necessary to let the MTA
>> receive
>> emails.
>>
>> Now, what's the MTA for me? I wish to pick up the easiest, because I
>> am busy
>> and I don't want to take a long learning curve. The MTA does not have
>> to be
>> able to receive/forward anything, just sending is okay.
>> Qmail, Exim, postfix, sendmail, courier ... None of them seems easy to
>> me:(
>
> It is very easy to setup any of those MTA's just for sending. All you
> have to do is to emerge them, make shure that they listen on port 25,
> and put your own IP in relaying list. Than in your mail client put
> localhost as SMTP server and you are set.

If what you said is true...
Look at this: (size of source)
Qmail 336KB
exim 1.7MB
sendmail 2.1MB
postfix 2.4MB
courier 4.1MB

Because I prefer simple, lightweight, perhaps I need QMail? I think I'll
use it. But, I prefer the MTA use system account. I guess qmail must be
able to do it:)

This surprised me:
xmail 390KB
xmail is so small, with so many features described in description: it
include both MTA and MDA, and a finger server. Perhaps this means xmail
is not mature?
But wait! Xmail does not conflict with ssmtp that installed on my
system. Perhaps this means it could not be used as a drop-in replacement
of sendmail?

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韡武 张 <zhangweiwu@realss.com> writes:

> Hello. I am not asking what's the BEST easiest MTA, because it is a stupid
> question.
>
> I am now using ssmtp but the mailhub is not always available (and ssmtp is
> not able to queue). So I wish I could set up my own MTA on my notebook.
> Because I am behind NAT firewall, it is not necessary to let the MTA receive
> emails.
>
> Now, what's the MTA for me? I wish to pick up the easiest, because I am busy
> and I don't want to take a long learning curve. The MTA does not have to be
> able to receive/forward anything, just sending is okay.
>
> Qmail, Exim, postfix, sendmail, courier ... None of them seems easy to me:(

Here's a link to Linus' comments on Qmail:

<http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/6/6/9>
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