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Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system


From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:53:09 +0200

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:29:44AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I like and use postfix myself. My one problem with it is that I need to 
> have some of the processes running to even use it. I'd prefer to be able 
> to have email services turned off but still be able to send an email as 
> can be done with sendmail (depending on configuration) or mailout or 
> other simple alternatives.

Unless you don't care about your e-mails actually being delivered, you
will always need *some* background process (be it even cron) to check
your queue periodically.  Even with mail-out-via-ISP-only systems.  Your
ISP's smtp server could be down, or, more likely, your link to it could
be down.  Things like ssmtp will then return an error to the calling
process, but sendmail will not, as it has "safely" queued the mail.  

	Geert




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