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Subject: Re: Some questions on postfix, SUMMARY
From: Emmanuel Courcelle (manuipbs.fr)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 02:34:24 CST

Wietse Venema wrote:

>
> There is the other variant, and that is to take a few Postfix
> routines and write a sendmail-like program that injects directly
> into the queue. However, that program would have to run set-uid
> postfix, which is OK only in a tightly-controlled environment.
>
> If that is an option to consider, then I could write such a beast.
> But it would be an optional thing, not recommended for general use.
>

Hello.

I have the following needs... not very far from this discussion, I
think.

We have here a single server used for mail (mail hub)
(about 300 users), BUT about 20 unix servers and stations.

I switched yesterday the mail hub to postfix (*** VERY *** fine...), BUT
the
other unix boxes still run sendmail (for now).

In fact the mail is used on those machines mainly for maintenance
(cron jobs, sending some file with "mail userfoo.fr < file", a.s.o.).

So, I do not really need a complete mail system... just a mail client
working in command line would be perfect. Something as easy to use as
mail or mailx, but something with would ONLY connect to the smtp server
on the mail hub to send the mail,
so that we would not have to install and configure the whole postfix
installation on every machine.

And... last but not least, it would still be nicer if it could attach
files (so we could ALSO send
binary files, not only ascii files).

Regards, 

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