8.04 MTA?

[Steve Lamb]

Dan Farrell wrote:
> What mail server wouldn't be running POP or IMAP?  The MUA should be 
> able to pull (or view) the mail directly from(on) th server!

    One that is dedicated to SMTP only?  :)

> You don't need a MTA unless you intend to accept incoming mail from
> the outside world and send outgoing mail directly to the final 
> recipient ... and you probably don't want to do that.  At that point,
> you basically have a fully functional mail server.

    Or you actually want mail notifications from cron/anacron jobs to
get somewhere meaningful.  Of course you can just run Nullmailer for
those, no need for an inbound MTA for simple SMTP sending.

> Finally, who is going to send the mail to postfix?

    One of the 30 accounts set up by default on Ubuntu?  ;)