On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 02:36:50PM +0000, mick wrote:
On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 12:55:21 +0000 Mark Rogers mark@more-solutions.co.uk allegedly wrote:
On 4 December 2015 at 11:16, Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com wrote:
I do this on an Ubuntu machine that doesn't have a proper MTA installed and never will:
apt-get install ssmtp heirloom-mailx -y
Thanks.
Based on this and other tips what I've just done is: sudo apt-get install dma heirloom-mailx -y
dma doesn't need a smarthost (it'll lookup MX records and send directly, but can be given a smarthost if I want to) so I'm trying that for now and it seems to work.
Thanks all for the advice, and I'm still open to new suggestions!
+1 for mailx. I also avoid mailutils because it pulls in too much other stuff. (And -1 for sendmail :-) If I need an MTA, I use postfix......)
I agree about postfix, in fact it seems to get installed anyway on Ubuntu systems. Basic configuration is quite simple.