Re: making sendmail call to msmtp asynchronous?

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Matthias Andree <ma+gnus@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:38:46AM +0200, Richard Riley wrote:
>> Not without pain. Of course. Exim4 is up there with the worst when it
>> comes to "simple tweaks" and enabling exim4 for multiple smarthosts
>> proved impossible (for me) give or take despite some old configs out
>> there in google land for exim1-3 but not 4. Why not use exim4s smtp send
>> facility? Its a pain if you travel : here I sit on holiday and smtp
>> ports for outgoing are blocked by the ISP and/or the hotel router. Gah!
>
> While I could offer you sample configs from my Cygwin installation, I've
> found out the hard way (this time on FreeBSD) that Exim4 has a very
> awkward lock-destination-sites behaviour that requires major manual
> interventions to purge the retry/site database to get mails unstuck,
> thus I decided I'm not going to install any more of that.
>
> While Postfix is a bit more of an effort to configure (enable
> sender-based authentication, enable sender-based relay, enable smtp (not
> smtpd)-side tls, enable smtp-side sasl, permit plaintext authentication
> on secure tls channels, set up all the maps, I find it's more
> transparent and has less magic special casing underneath that confuses
> the heck out of myself.
>

Much as I dislike Exim4 docs, I have to stick up for it here. Using a
single smarthost as I described is pretty straightforward.

Clearing frozen mails caused by a destination refusing your mail because
your IP is blacklisted or smtp ports are blocked is a google away.

I did originally use the exim4 sendmail interpretation (having first had
my business/home IP cleared out of spamhaus! It took about a day for all
major email providers to get the updated spam lists and see my ip
cleared) and that was great but of course my recent roaming adventures
put paid to that and its back to gmail smtp smart hosts.

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