[NMLUG] Debian server questions

[Ed at Heron-ent.com (Ed Heron)]

From: "Jody Harris" <havoc@harrisdev.com>

> You can just leave the sendmail program setting on that machine, and not 
> run it as a service.  At that point, it's really easy to have it send your 
> mail out.  It runs, it sends, it closes.  All the 'goodness' of sendmail 
> without the security issues.

  Just make sure you setup a cron job to process the queue.  If the first 
attempt to deliver the message fails, it would otherwise stay in queue 
forever.  This is why I dislike ssmtp; There is no way to attempt delivery 
later.