On Thu 24 Sep 2020 at 13:35:17 +0000, mike.junk...@att.net wrote: > > On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, 09:14:42 PM CDT, Dan Ritter > <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > mutt is an MUA, not an MTA. > > What tasks do you want your mail server to perform? Please be > specific. We will have better advice for you once we know > exactly what you want to have happen. > -dsr- > Thanks, Dan,All I need from an MTA is:1) take mail from fetchmail and > put it in a mailbox for mutt to display,2) take mail from mutt and > send it to my ISP via smtp3) take messages from the system, eg: cron > and deliver them to that same mailbox4) take a simple message on the > CL such as: echo 'blah' | mail -s 'oops' no...@example.com > > I've been using exim for years and it works well but is overkill for > my needs.
I too have been using exim for years in a similar way to the way you describe. It does the job very well and I just let it get on with it. I don't really understand what you mean by "overkill" and think you are fussing over nothing. -- Brian.
