Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3560 mails)

["Theo v. Werkhoven" <theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fri, 20 Apr 2007, by gebser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> On 04/20/2007 03:45 PM somebody named David Brodbeck wrote:
> > ken wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> > I don't know.  It depends on how you look at it.  To me it's like
> > asking, "Why should I have to run a print spooler service just to
> > print?  Each program should talk to the printer directly, using its own
> > drivers."
> > 
> > Often it just makes sense to centralize functionality like this instead
> > of requiring individual programs to carry around a lot of baggage.  It's
> > especially handy if you have more than one program that sends mail,
> > since you only have to configure everything once, in postfix.  Postfix
> > isn't really acting as a server in any real sense, here; more like a
> > middleman for the mail client.  Hence the term "mail transfer agent."
> > 
> 
> No argument.  Being the original poster, I should probably repeat the
> solution I was after:
> 
> One user on one machine sends out (via a script run from a cron job) one
> email per day.  This user is serviced by a quite robust remote mail
> server (actually a cluster of eight mail servers dispersed around the
> US).  For me to set up my own mail server would not likely improve the
> reliability of this system.  Of course there could be a network outage,
> or a local problem preventing delivery.  But this would be noticed by a
> human at the email's destination.  And there will be some kind of error
> message on the source side; nail, for example, seems to return an error
> code in the event of failure.
> 
> I could be wrong, but I just don't see how one outgoing email per day
> (and no incoming mail) warrants a mail server.

It doesn't.
Like I said; you only need an SMTP (sending) capable program that
you can feed header- and body data from stdin and that connects to
the SMTP server of your choise.
Either the original Sendmail, or the Postfix/Exim/Qmail drop-in can
do that. No need to start an MTA from e.g. /etc/init.d

Theo
-- 
Theo v. Werkhoven    Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org
ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E.     +      ICQ: 277217131
SUSE 10.2                      +   Jabber: muadib@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Kernel 2.6.18                  +   See headers for PGP/GPG info.
Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply.
-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx