[vox-tech] Un-relaying postfix

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Thu Oct 1 18:23:45 PDT 2009


Quoting Ken Bloom (kbloom at gmail.com):

> Some programs that send mail (most notably mutt) don't speak SMTP --
> they just call sendmail and let sendmail do the dirty work. If that's
> all you're trying to do, then there are several different sendmail
> replacements that can do that without starting a daemon, for example
> ssmtp, nullmailer, and esmtp.

FYI, I keep a list of known "nullmailers" (simple outbound-service 
SMTP daemons just complex enough to drop mail bundles off at a
smarthost) here:

"Nullmailers" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Mail/



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