ken wrote:
So, what is the reason why the mail can't be send by Postfix? What is the advantage of doing it with a mail client (a solution that has yet to be found)?
So there are a number of solutions, two of which already work. I just need to implement one which does SSL.
In other words, you don't have a solution that fits all requirements?
If I needed a mail server, well then, yes, I'd use it. But I don't need that. It just seems ridiculous to set up a mail server on every machine on which somebody sends out an email. The question shouldn't be "Why not use postfix?", but rather "Why use it?" All I've heard so far are a couple voices that I *must* use it and loud pronouncements of disaster if I don't, but no specific and compelling reasons in favor of it. If there were such reasons, then every little email workstation would have a mail server running on it.
Since I see no reason/explanation here not to use Postfix I'll depart from this thread and wish you good look for the future.
So, what is this software which needs to be installed to avoid "sure disaster", this MTA (no longer a mail server)? No idea what you are talking about.
Joachim was retreating from his claim that I needed to set up a mail server, articulating a mouthful of theory that all I needed really was an MTA (mail transfer agent). Trying to bring the conversation back to practical reality, I was asking what/which MTA software package this was that I'd need to install. :)
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