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Re: Mail. Mail! Mail?
Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:
> Installing an MTA, whatever its size may be, has the potential
> of introducing more work, more open ports, more firewall building,
> more following the associated securitiy advisories absent a firewall
> or not absent a firewall, more ...
Not at all. All modern MTAs can be configured, quite easily, in a
'dumb client' mode where they accept mail only from the local host --
they don't even open a network socket -- and forward all that mail to
a designated 'smart hub'. (Terminology varies.) There are even
programs, such as sSMTP and nullmailer, which have *only* this
functionality.
zw