> msmtp-mta ships a minimal smtp daemon but it is (normally and on purpose)
> disabled by default so there is no daemon listening unless you enable it.
Ah indeed, that was not immediately clear to me. I just installed
msmtp-mta. The service is indeed disabled by default.
Thanks,
Arnaud
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 2:59 PM Emmanuel Bouthenot <kol...@openics.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 09:36:17PM +0700, elboulang...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Is there anything wrong with the approach that Flavio suggests? It
> > also makes sense to me.
> msmtp-mta was created so that msmtp could be installed in parallel of a
> real MTA (see: #396527)
>
> > I'm considering to simply do `ln -sr /usr/bin/msmtp
> > /usr/sbin/sendmail` instead of installing msmtp-mta, because indeed, I
> > don't need a SMTP server, I just want to use msmtp as a drop-in
> > replacement for sendmail.
> That's the goal of msmtp-mta: provides sendmail compatibility without
> having to create symlinks manually.
>
> msmtp-mta ships a minimal smtp daemon but it is (normally and on purpose)
> disabled by
> default so there is no daemon listening unless you enable it.
>
> Regards,
>
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> Emmanuel Bouthenot
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