MasqMail

My laptops all run MasqMail so that they can always send mail, no matter where I am. This is good, and works very well. However, masqmail is suffering from non-maintenance. So, do I change my MTA, or do I adopt MasqMail?

Ideally I'd switch to another MTA, as long as it's simple and will automatically change the delivery method depending on some external data (generally the name of the current network interface). Any suggestions? Or should I start reviewing the bugs and hijack the package?

Update: Oliver Kurth, previously absent maintainer of MasqMail, just did a new upstream release and uploaded to Debian. Dilemma over!

NP: In Between Dreams, Jack Johnson.

09:58 Monday, 07 Nov 2005 [#] [computers] (7 comments)

Posted by Andrea at Mon Nov 7 10:53:19 2005:
Adopt it, adopt it!

I'm using masqmail too, for other reasons. IMVHO is overkill to use Exim or Postfix on a single user pc to send mail, but at the same time i still want to have something that works like a mail server. I don't know if i can be up to the task, but i'm willing to help, maybe, co-maintaining it... =)
Posted by Osma at Mon Nov 7 13:39:02 2005:
Evolution, offline mode, and SMTP-AUTH over SSL to my "home" server work just fine.. Haven't yet seen a network where I could not send an email, even when regular SMTP was blocked. And obviously, I have no reason to run any kind of an MTA on the laptop.

A mail server that doesn't accept an SSL/TLS connection and support SMTP-AUTH should be considered broken in this day and age.
Posted by Abe Fettig at Mon Nov 7 20:50:03 2005:
I've found that GMail works well as a free available-from-anywhere SMTP server. See http://fettig.net/weblog/2005/11/03/managing-mail/ for the details of how I use it.
Posted by Oliver at Mon Nov 7 22:53:22 2005:
I just uploaded a new masqmail. Thanks for your glib2 patch, btw. I applied that as well.

Osma, masqmail is intended as a mail server to be run at home, so it does not really need SSL support on the server side. As a client though, you are right. But you can send over ssl, or fetch mail using ssl by using the openssl binary. The man pages explain how.
Posted by Mourad at Tue Nov 8 01:03:20 2005:
I really enjoy nullmailer - it's a very simple relay only MTA.

works like a charm. No fancy pop3 client or anything like that, though. relay-only.
Posted by Ross at Tue Nov 8 08:18:33 2005:
Mourad: I use nullmailer on devices who only forward to a known host, but it doesn't handle changing the relay host automatically.

Oliver: Excellent!
Posted by Sean Neakums at Tue Nov 8 13:35:16 2005:
I use postfix and uucp-over-ssh.  Works well, and has that retro cachet.

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