[vox-tech] MTA

[Chanoch (Ken) Bloom]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:50:56AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Chanoch (Ken) Bloom (kbloom at gmail.com):
> 
> > The best thing to do is probably to install a lightweight non-daemon
> > mailer like esmtp-run so that programs that need it can still have
> > access to a sendmail command.
> 
> Note that esmtp is no longer being maintained, but may still be useful
> nonetheless.  I maintain a list of similar software, here:
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/nullmailers.html

esmtp is the most capable in terms of outgoing encryption and
authentication (It's been a while, so I don't exactly remember the
details), so it's a good match for Google's SMTP servers which require
those.

--Ken

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Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/