[plug] Smallest MTA (Sendmail/SMTP) for Ubuntu

[Bernd Felsche]

Tim <weirdit at gmail.com> wrote:

>So all I want basically is cron jobs, and database backups sent to my
>email. But, I don't want to setup a full MTA (SMTP server) and I don't
>want to relay through another SMTP server as I have no idea where my
>clients machines are going to be.
>So... What's the smallest MTA/SMTP server people know for Ubuntu, and
>easiest to configure for just basic sending only?

Do you need the SMTP server to cache?

You can write your own easily enough in Python; if you speak Python.
<http://docs.python.org/library/smtpd.html> It would only be _small_
if you already have Python installed for another reason.

Postfix is not a big install. Postfix can be set up for simple
caching and forwarding (relay); listening only on the localhost
port.  Postfix is lighter than sendmail and a shirtload more secure
by design.

Obtuse used to offer a simple SMTP forwarding daemon (smtpfwdd) as
part of the Juniper firewall toolkit. It still appears to be
available on *BSD distributuions but slipped off the Linux distros
about 4 to 5 years ago.
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