Keep Exim4?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Miles Beck wrote:

> Is there any reason to keep Exim on my Debian box?
>
> Will cron job emails get sent to pine without it?

Where do you read your cron job emails? I assume if you use pine then you 
are using the local mbox (/var/spool/mail/$USER).

You need something to accept sendmail (and maybe send-mail) to do the 
proper (locking and using mbox format) local delivery to the mail box.

If you want to send outbound, you need an SMTP outbound client. It would 
be nice for it to have queueing capability in the chance the first network 
SMTP connection does not work.

> I don't really need a mail server so wanted to remove it if it was not
> needed for something else.

Exim is not needed. But you do need a replacement.

I am guessing that google will lead you to some "mail.local" type tools. 
As for smtp out, you could use my mailout or several alternatives.

Here are some ideas, but this list is old:

  http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/ (19/Feb/2002)
  http://throwmail.sourceforge.net/ (19/Feb/2002)
  http://www.michaelharo.com/projects/smtpsend/
  http://www.toesinperil.com:8080/~me/smtppush/
  http://larve.net/people/hugo/2001/02/ssmtp/
  and others
(19/Jul/2005)
  http://innominate.org/kurth/masqmail/
  http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/
  http://esmtp.sourceforge.net/
  http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~me/smtppush/
  http://untroubled.org/nullmailer/

  http://www.reedmedia.net/software/mailout/

(I need to finish my sendmail -q part and also write a local delivery 
agent.)


  Jeremy C. Reed

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