offline mail writing (was Re: Debtags for science)

[Teemu Ikonen]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de> wrote:
> Enrico Zini dixit:
>
>>[damn!  I postponed this since I wrote it on a bus, but then I forgot to
>>send it]
[...]
> I use the following setup:
> * /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is pretty straightforward, although I do use a
>  smarthost:
>
>  in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf:
>  | DS[herc.mirbsd.org]
>
>  in /etc/mail/access:
>  | TLS_Srv:herc.mirbsd.org             VERIFY:112+CN:herc.mirbsd.org
[etc.]

Sorry for off-topicness to the list subscribers, but this is a good
example on why email on Unix sucks.

Is there really not a simple /usr/sbin/sendmail -replacement which
would just deliver local mail and send the rest using a webmail
account (we're talking about a single user machine here)? Of course it
should also buffer outgoing mail until network connection becomes
available.

This kind of thing could be written in bash + python and ran from
cron, instead of consuming several megabytes all the time like exim in
Debian.

Anyone heard of a mailer like this?

Teemu