Re: [PLUG] Elgg + postfix

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:39 PM, brent timothy saner
>> i spent like, two whole hours trying to hack away at postfix JUST THE
>> OTHER DAY to figure out how to get a null address working, and here
>> there's a nullmailing mta i can just transfer it to.

Nullmailer Just Works when installed, but as a fail-safe I should also 
have mentioned that you might want to:
# echo "$ROOT_MAIL_TO" >> /etc/nullmailer/adminaddr
# /etc/init.d/nullmailer restart

Where "$ROOT_MAIL_TO" is, oddly enough, the address to which to send 
root's mail...  'man nullmailer' to get a list of the trivial files 
nullmailer uses for config settings.


> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:51:09 -0400
> From: Michael Bevilacqua <michael@bevilacqua.us>
>
> Alternatively, there is also the ssmtp package in the repos. Very useful as
> well.

Cool, I didn't know about that one.  At a high-level it sounds like the 
do the same thing.  Anyone know anything more?

Ahh, I love Google:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/nullmailers.html

I have no strong opinion either way, but this argues that ssmtp should 
go away in Gentoo (I only skimmed the page):
http://www.davidgrant.ca/ssmtp_vs_postfix_no_contest

Later,
JP
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