Re: making sendmail call to msmtp asynchronous?

[Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr>]

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.

Hi guys,

having tried to do the above, I eventually ended up using smtp.gmail.com
as my only postfix smarthost with smtp-side sasl, relaying from there
all of my sender addresses. (There are some buttons for this procedure
on the gmail settings).

Also, I ended up using this setup too

        http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultipleSMTPAccounts

since I need to use other smtp servers occassionally too.

Ping me offlist if you want sample postfix config, but I think it's dead
easy to do.

The only + of my suggestions is that it's the simplest outgoing email
setup I could think of. I'm using this setup for the last 6 months and
I'm pretty happy.

Best Regards,
Leonidas Tsampros