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On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:25:13AM +0100, Neil Stone wrote: > > > Given exim is the default on debian, for my continued education what > > programs do others use for sending email? > > > > MTA or MUA ?? > MTA http://lwn.net/Articles/196724/ Exim is the default under debian but given that this is for a single user desktop machine and that reading the documentation package gives me a headache, I would prefer to have a simpler program. The question is which? In looking in the debian packages I see the following MTAs - Sendmail. This seems to be in use a lot but also there appear to be security problems with it? - Postfix. Ditto both of these (along with exim) seem designed for mail servers. - ssmtp A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to your mail hub. - Smail Smail is a mail transport agent (MTA) - msmtp msmtp is an SMTP client that ... forwards mails to an SMTP server http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/ All of these seem much simpler: in googling about mta's there seem to be strong opinions on sendmail vs postfix vs qmail vs exim but not really about the smaller packages.. -- Henry Thu Aug 2 14:56:06 BST 2007
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