While postfix is downhill, I've used esmtp when I wanted less, much less. root@venus:/home/tarvid/downloads# apt-cache show esmtp Package: esmtp Priority: extra Section: universe/mail Installed-Size: 148 Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Original-Maintainer: José Fonseca <<a href="mailto:j_r_fonseca@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">j_r_fonseca@yahoo.co.uk</a>> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.6.0-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.6.1-1), libesmtp5 (>= 0.8.8), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 Recommends: esmtp-run Suggests: procmail | maildrop | deliver Filename: pool/universe/e/esmtp/esmtp_0.6.0-1_i386.deb Size: 40690 MD5sum: 02da26961c83f5e0750c9bbfe513224c SHA1: f9c5e3b70dc6746bd6c2d7165479d03267c4cf98 SHA256: 3fe0d15d41f94f1caba1c02a89eb445d67d251050655de9ee20aba13f1c99cf0 Description: User configurable relay-only MTA ESMTP is a user configurable relay-only Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) with a sendmail-compatible syntax. It's based on libESMTP supporting the AUTH (including the CRAM-MD5 and NTLM SASL mechanisms) and the StartTLS SMTP extensions. . ESMTP does not receive mail, expand aliases or manage a queue but can deliver mail locally via an MDA. . This package contains the esmtp program. Bugs: mailto:<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Origin: Ubuntu <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Jorge Armando Medina <<a href="mailto:jmedina@e-compugraf.com" target="_blank">jmedina@e-compugraf.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>On Tuesday 13 January 2009 14:29:59 Greg Michalski wrote: > I'm running 8.10 server as a home file and print server. I'm looking for > the most basic of mail transfer agents capable of handling the sending of > routine reports and status information scheduled through cron via email to > an account on my ISP and don't want or need a full fledged, resource > hogging mail server. Therefore during install I only selected Print > server, Samba File server and OpenSSH server (for headless administration). > Now I'd like to have the ability to have remote knowledge of some system > stats when I'm not around to SSH in and check on things myself. I don't > need to receive any emails on the server - only send things out. > </div>I use postfix for that, sending throught gmail using SMTP-AUTH en SSL/TLS, I have a howto about that (in spanish) that you use: <a href="http://tuxjm.net/2008/11/26/postfix_como_enviar_correo_a_traves_de_un_servidor_externo_usando_sasl_y_tls/" target="_blank">http://tuxjm.net/2008/11/26/postfix_como_enviar_correo_a_traves_de_un_servidor_externo_usando_sasl_y_tls/</a> <div><div> > Browsing through the Ubuntu packages list, sSMTP looks like a good > solution. Does anyone have experience with it and am I right in my > interpretation of the description here : > <a href="http://www.linux.com/feature/132006" target="_blank">http://www.linux.com/feature/132006</a> in reading that it meets my needs > stated above? It reads like it's very easy to setup and in effect I only > have a single user. > > Any comments/suggestions/flaming appreciated. :) > > Greg > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, > and ammo. Please use in that order." - Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > <a href="http://www.distinctperspectives.com" target="_blank">www.distinctperspectives.com</a> -- </div></div>Jorge Armando Medina Computación Gráfica de México Web: <a href="http://www.e-compugraf.com" target="_blank">www.e-compugraf.com</a> Tel: 55 51 40 72 email: <a href="mailto:jmedina@e-compugraf.com" target="_blank">jmedina@e-compugraf.com</a> GPG Key: 1024D/28E40632 2007-07-26 GPG Fingerprint: 59E2 0C7C F128 B550 B3A6 D3AF C574 8422 28E4 0632 -- ubuntu-server mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server</a> More info: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam</a> </blockquote></div> -- <a href="http://ls.net" target="_blank">http://ls.net</a> <a href="http://drupal.ls.net" target="_blank">http://drupal.ls.net</a>