[arch-general] Light-weight SMTP "server"

[Mike Sampson]

I have used msmtp. From memory it just consists of a command line utility
and a config file containing the mail server you want to use, credentials if
used, etc. Worked well for me. There are quite a few tutorials on the web
about using it with mutt.

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:06 AM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net>wrote:

> Magnus Therning wrote:
>
>> Any good suggestions for a light-weight SMTP server?
>>
>> All email goes off-box to my ISP for remote delivery, I don't require any
>> local delivery.  Things like exim/sendmail/postfix feels like overkill.  It
>> would even be enough if all that's available is something like an
>> /usr/lib/sendmail executable.  Is there something suitable and light-weight?
>>
>> /M
>>
>
> Searching the arch packages turned up a few:
> http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=smtp
>
>
> Caveats:
>
> * haven't used any of these, so can't vouch for how good they are. (Maybe
> others can chime in?)
>
> * a few of them appear to be unmaintained orphans
>
>
> BTW, I'd be curious to hear back what you wind up choosing.  I'm using my
> MTA for a similar purpose as you (smart host forwarding to an ISP) and
> currently using exim for it, but like you said it's way overkill for that.
>  Would happily move to something simpler.
>
> HTH,
>
> DR
>