Am 2006-11-13 11:52:45, schrieb Rob Bochan:
> I'm interested in the cron-apt package.
> Is anyone aware if there's any way for it to send a message to an external
> mail (i.e. to a gmail account, etc.) without having an MTA installed on the
> machine? Perhaps some settings like the reportbug pack
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:52:45AM -0500, Rob Bochan wrote:
> I'm interested in the cron-apt package.
> Is anyone aware if there's any way for it to send a message to an external
> mail (i.e. to a gmail account, etc.) without having an MTA installed on the
> machine? Perhaps some settings like th
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 13:53, Matthew Krauss wrote:
>
> It seems too obvious, but have you looked at update-notifier?
I have. It's still a bit of overhead on an fvwm based desktop, especially all
the dependencies, but it would seem to be about the only other solution.
...Rob
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Rob Bochan wrote:
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 10:32, Dave Sherohman wrote:
An MTA is nothing. Really. ...
I appreciate the reply, but it's not a solution for me. In fact, it's one I
explicitly don't want. I do the occasional Linux install for fairly clueless
folks who own older hard
Rob writes:
> I do the occasional Linux install for fairly clueless folks who own older
> hardware, and I'm not going to subject them to the the headaches and
> overhead of running unnecessary services, especially a mail server.
A server that is not running incurs no overhead. On a home pc the MT
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 10:32, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> An MTA is nothing. Really. ...
I appreciate the reply, but it's not a solution for me. In fact, it's one I
explicitly don't want. I do the occasional Linux install for fairly clueless
folks who own older hardware, and I'm not going to s
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 04:31:38PM -0500, Rob Bochan wrote:
> Besides the config and security hassles of it, the machine's a P2-300 with 64
> meg ram. The GUI bogs it down enough, I can't imagine running an MTA on it as
> well.
An MTA is nothing. Really. I ran 5 domains (including mail, DNS,
a
I wrote:
> "Settings"? Reportbug does its own SMTP.
Rob Bochan writes:
> It can also store and use SMTP settings (i.e. ISP's SMTP server) if no
> MTA is installed
Those "settings" are the information needed by reportbug's internal MTA to
connect to the ISP's server via SMTP.
I wrote:
> What's
On Monday 13 November 2006 15:26, John Hasler wrote:
>
> You probably want nullmailer.
I wasn't aware of that package, I'll look into it.
> "Settings"? Reportbug does its own SMTP.
It can also store and use SMTP settings (i.e. ISP's SMTP server) if no MTA is
installed
> What's with this horr
Rob Bochan writes:
> I'm interested in the cron-apt package. Is anyone aware if there's any
> way for it to send a message to an external mail (i.e. to a gmail
> account, etc.) without having an MTA installed on the machine?
You probably want nullmailer.
> Perhaps some settings like the reportbu
I'm interested in the cron-apt package.
Is anyone aware if there's any way for it to send a message to an external
mail (i.e. to a gmail account, etc.) without having an MTA installed on the
machine? Perhaps some settings like the reportbug package does? I'm
interesting in using it to keep machi
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