8.04 MTA?

[Robert Holtzman]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Mario Vukelic wrote:

> A more typical desktop install, at least for Ubuntu's target users,
> would be Evolution or Thunderbird fetching email from a remote POP or
> IMAP server, and using the ISP's MTA.
>
> It seems sensible to optimize for this case, as the procmail and
> mutt-using folks are perfectly capable of installing their MTA of
> preference :)

Don't be too sure. I run fetchmail, procmail, and alpine but when I looked 
at a copy of the sendmail configuration file I had to reach for the Scotch 
bottle. What a can of worms. Maybe it's just because I haven't had any
occasion to study it. Is postfix any easier?


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