From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 27 12:21:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06891 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:21:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from coventry.ac.uk (mercury.coventry.ac.uk [193.61.107.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06846 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:21:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from justin@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk) Received: from mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk (mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk [194.66.38.77]) by coventry.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.6.11) with SMTP id UAA20206; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 20:20:27 +0100 (BST) Received: (from justin@localhost) by mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) id UAA28558; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 20:20:13 +0100 Message-Id: <199808271920.UAA28558@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 98 20:20 +0100 From: Justin Murdock Subject: Re: Stub MTA for lab machines (sendmail replacement) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: David Wolfskill's mail of Thu, 27 Aug 98 11:24 +0700 References: <199808271716.SAA28082@mascarpone.coventry.ac.uk> <199808271824.LAA03542@pau-amma.whistle.com> X-Mailer: Af v1.98.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >Date: Thu, 27 Aug 98 18:16 +0100 > >From: Justin Murdock 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