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Re: Plausibility of sendmail?
- From: Robert R Schneck <schneck at math dot berkeley dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:36:26 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Plausibility of sendmail?
- References: <000501c3f393$b9faa860$6400a8c0@KYOAMI>
AG <andy-glew@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> NMH can be configured to send email directly to an SMTP server,
> but this is not sufficient to meet my needs
> a) this is a TabletPC, a mobile device, which frequently is not
> connected. I.e. outgoing mail needs to be queued and sent
> later when the outgoing SMTP server is accessible.
> b) I need to route email selectively: my company mail is not
> supposed to go through my personal, non-company, ISP,
> and vice versa.
>
> In my limited understanding I require more than just connecting
> to an SMTP server; I need a mail transport agent that can queue
> outgoing mail for several different outgoing mail servers.
In principle ssmtp is a drop-in replacement from sendmail, but it
doesn't have full sendmail functionality; it will ignore or bomb on
most command-line options.
All that ssmtp can do is forward mail to an SMTP server.
It can choose which server selectively based on the From address.
It doesn't queue; but I use it on a frequently unconnected machine, with
a homegrown script to queue mail in such a way that I can ssmtp it
later. ssmtp has the benefit of being trivial to configure.
Exim is much more powerful, and almost certainly can be used as a
complete drop-in sendmail replacement in the way you want.
Robert
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