Re: MTA packaging (exim, postfix, sendmail, ssmtp)

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Aug 28 18:25, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> Corinna, Christian, Daniel, Pierre,
> 
> While I'm working out the details of allowing all your MTA packages to
> coexist, it would be helpful if you could clarify under what circumstances,
> if any, you expect that your MTA could function as /usr/sbin/sendmail for
> the purposes of sending outgoing mail without any configuration on the part
> of users.

For ssmtp, I don't think there's any default way to operate without the
admin running ssmtp-config.  Ssmtp is not exactly an MTA, but rather
just a forwarder to a smarthost.  So, to function at all, it requires
the admin to specify that smarthost.


Corinna

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