[gentoo-user] msmtp vs. nullmailer

[Marc Joliet <marcec@gmx.de>]

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Hi list,

As part of removing now superfluous server functionality on my desktop, I
replaced postfix with msmtp (and removed a bunch of other software).  However,
the portage default for virtual/mta is nullmailer.  (I also switched my laptop
from ssmtp to msmtp since ssmtp upstream has long been dead and has thus fallen
out of favour with Gentoo devs [0].)

Now, my reasoning for choosing msmtp was that development seemed more active.
The last release of nullmailer was in 2013, while msmtp has had a release or
two this year already.  However, the nullmailer repository [1] has shown a bit
of activity since the last release, though it looks fairly minor to me.

However, the one thing that annoys me is that msmtp does not seem to have any
sort of queue [2], so if it can't deliver an email, it must be resent, which is
annoying for system emails.  Now, I read that nullmailer has a queue (at both
[2] and [3]).

So my question is: what is your preference, nullmailer or msmtp (or neither?),
and why?  Is there anything that speaks against nullmailer, other than its
(seemingly) slow development?

[0] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450812
[1] https://github.com/bruceg/nullmailer/commits/master
[2] http://sourceforge.net/p/msmtp/mailman/message/649420/
[3] http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/nullmailer/

-- 
Marc Joliet
--
"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we
don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup

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