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Date:      Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:24:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk
Subject:   Re: Stub MTA for lab machines (sendmail replacement)
Message-ID:  <199808271824.LAA03542@pau-amma.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199808271716.SAA28082@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk>

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>Date: Thu, 27 Aug 98 18:16 +0100
>From: Justin Murdock <justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk>

>I'm looking for a very very simple sendmail replacement - 

>there is no incoming SMTP; _ALL_ mail is to be thrown at
>the mailserver; no queueing necessary - graceful failure
>if the server is down is OK. Smail would be overkill for
>this. 

>Is there anything around?

What I have done for situations like this is use sendmail:

* configuration based on "null client" prototype in cf/cf/clientproto.mc;

* no running sendmail in daemon mode.

Simple; easy to configure & understand.


david
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