ssmtp problem

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

kwhiskerz wrote:
> Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> 
>> An alternative is to use esmtp (a lightweight ssmtp equivalent) with
>> postfix for local mail delivery - see here:
>>
>> http://esmtp.sourceforge.net/manual.html
>>
> I appreciate the suggestion, but I don't see how this would be an
> 
advantage (this is arcane territory for me). I would disable the
sendmail daemon, then have to configure 2 applications, where
sendmail needs NO configuration, and have to run another daemon
named procmail? So, I'm still running a daemon anyway and have a
whole lot of work to do every Fedora upgrade.
> 
> What got me started on this was that I had read an article about
> a 5-second linux boot and they said they had disabled sendmail and
were using ssmtp instead with significant time saving.
> 
esmtp or ssmtp are replacements Sendmail, and are faster loading.
You are using procmail for local mail delivery now - Sendmail calls
it when needed. It is not a daemon.

Mikkel
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