Date: Thu, 27 Aug 98 20:20 +0100 From: Justin Murdock <justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stub MTA for lab machines (sendmail replacement) Message-ID: <199808271920.UAA28558@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: David Wolfskill's mail of Thu, 27 Aug 98 11:24 %2B0700 References: <199808271716.SAA28082@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> <199808271824.LAA03542@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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> >Date: Thu, 27 Aug 98 18:16 +0100 > >From: Justin Murdock <justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk> Thanks for taking the time to reply. > >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: Ooops, I forgot to mention that some of the boxes run IRIX, I'll have put a real sendmail on them at the very least, and I'd rather not run sendmail at all - I have no need of its configurability, and until it has had a complete rewrite, I trust it as far as I could spit the stack of security advisories about it. > * configuration based on "null client" prototype in cf/cf/clientproto.mc; > * no running sendmail in daemon mode. This is precisely the configuration I would use if there were no alternatives. > Simple; easy to configure & understand. easy to configure (with m4) yes, to understand (after m4) are you so sure? and simple - sendmail - never. ;) Yours, Justin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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