Re: HOWTO for send/post email using EXMH on Ubuntu/Debian?

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:38:14 PST, [email protected] writes:
>I think I may have this somewhat figured out, in the case of using postfix
>et al to effect the send/post to my ISP's MTA using the "relayhost"
>parameter of the /usr/share/postfix/main.cf postfix config file, and also
>the "mts" parameter of the /etc/nmh/mts.conf config file.

you are correct, that is the way things are supposed to be.

>Additionally, it occurs to me that postfix is pretty heavyweight in terms
>of likely running daemons etc, and I only need to get outgoing email over

there's a bunch of smaller mail transfer agents out there,
eg. nullmailer.

>I note that one can config /etc/nmh/mts.conf such that nmh's "post"
>command interacts directly with an SMTP server. However, it looks from the
>mh-tailor(5) manpage like one cannot specify the SMTP port to use (it
>defaults to the standard one (which my ISP isn't using)), nor can one
>specify using SMTP-over-TLS, apparently (which I'd prefer to do).
>
>Does anyone have any feedback/thoughts?

the alternative setup is

 mts: sendmail
 sendmail: /usr/lib/sendmail

in mts.conf and

 postproc: /usr/lib/mh/spost

in ~/.mh_profile, which makes exmh/nmh use spost to
run a local sendmail as submission program, which then does 
its magic. 

i use this (well, close to) because i want some extra local
functionality happening before my mail goes out
(see http://www.snafu.priv.at/mystuff/kuvert/):

basically, as long as the program you list as sendmail in mts.conf
takes the standard sendmail options and reads a message from stdin,
nmh is happy. 

as to "no daemon", that is exactly what the spost setup provides.

regards
az


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