From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 5 4:27:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7467637B400 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 04:27:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clientmail.ehsrealtime.com (eris.ehsrealtime.com [213.52.146.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9CF843E4A for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 04:27:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wayne@penguinpowered.org.uk) Received: from set.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.197]) by clientmail.ehsrealtime.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17munF-000LJB-01; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:27:25 +0100 Received: from waynep by set.ehsrealtime.com with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 17mvk7-0004hF-00; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:28:15 +0000 From: Wayne Pascoe To: Den Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMTP vs sendmail References: <200209051521.21926.info@volginfo.ru> <20020905111454.GA17069@kierun.org> <200209051531.09327.info@volginfo.ru> Date: 05 Sep 2002 12:28:14 +0000 In-Reply-To: <200209051531.09327.info@volginfo.ru> Message-ID: Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Civil Service) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Den writes: > On Thursday 05 September 2002 15:14, Yann Golanski wrote: > > Quoth Den on Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 15:21:21 +0400 > > > > > can I use SMTP instead sendmail to send problem reports and cron jobs > > > result? > > > > SMTP is a protocol that sendmail uses. If you want to have a look at > > another MTA, check out Exim, Qmail or Postfix. > > is anybody know small mta for only send mail? This doesn't really answer your question, but if you explain what you are trying to do and why sendmail is not appropriate for that task, people may be able to help you more. If you do not have any special needs you might be best sticking with sendmail as this is part of the base system. Regards, -- - Wayne Pascoe - http://www.penguinpowered.org.uk/wayne/ Yoohoo... I'll make you famous To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message