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From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Change mail-mta/msmtp to be the default in virtual/mta instead of mail-mta/ssmtp ?
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:20:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <robbat2-20120312T201748-053699437Z@orbis-terrarum.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F5E5794.8050004@gentoo.org>

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:07:48PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> ssmtp has been quiet project for quite a while, where as msmtp is 
> maintained one.
> 
> sure, ssmtp might be just mature, but msmtp is equally small and has 
> more features.
> 
> any thoughts?
+1 to getting rid of ssmtp. But I'm not sure that msmtp is the best
replacement.

One of the greatest things that bugs me about ssmtp is that if the
mailserver is not available, it hangs for a while, and then it loses the
email. 

Where I need a simple mail relay, I've gone with nullmailer instead,
because it supports the features, and it explicitly has a lightweight
daemon mode that queues mail to send.

-- 
Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
E-Mail     : robbat2@gentoo.org
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-12 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-12 20:07 [gentoo-dev] RFC: Change mail-mta/msmtp to be the default in virtual/mta instead of mail-mta/ssmtp ? Samuli Suominen
2012-03-12 20:20 ` Robin H. Johnson [this message]
2012-03-12 22:21   ` Eray Aslan
2012-03-13 13:04   ` Christian Birchinger

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