Mail. Mail! Mail?

[Zack Weinberg]

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