[LBo] I need your recomendation on a good MUA.

[Stefan Waidele]

Hi André,

André Jee schrieb:
> Stefan,
> 
> I'm sure this would have worked, unfortunately this was not approved by 
> my superior.

I don't want to discuss your company's policy, but your supperior will 
need to approve either a MTA on the backup machine or some other means 
of sending mail.

Most UNIX-MUA's (which seem to be fine with your boss) will need a 
working MTA, because this is what MTAs are for: Transferring Mail.

> So I have installed mail binary.

Where from?
A package or did you just copy one from another box?

> I don't have a local MTA so I depend on 
> an external SMTP gateway.
> At first I thought I just could specify it in my mail syntax. After 
> reading man mail I could not find any syntax where I could specify it.
> So I looked for configuration files to mail, but I could not find any. 
> Is this to be configured in a Debian system file?
> Also my /var/log/mail* logs are empty. That makes sense, it's not 
> working yet, at all :-)

If you go down that road, you will not "keep your machine clean" but you 
will make a bigger mess than the installation of 
sendmail/exim/postfix/someperlskript would ever cause.

> I believe that I make it to hard for myself. There are probably easier 
> way to approach it. The fact is that my objective is to use mail.

"mail" from which package?
Or just any program that's called mail?

If "mail" is in your company's policy, then I will be happy to write a 
programm called mail that does what you want. In fact, just call that 
script I pointed you to "mail" and your boss will be satisfied.

Remember that this list is being archived publically (thus your boss can 
read it) before you reply to this mail... :)

> [...]
> Pointers?
>> [...]
>> http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/smtp/index.xp?show_selected=1&msgid=31

Good luck,

Stefan
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