Installing SendMail

[Wade Smart]

06292006 2004 GMT-6

Cameron, so i read up on esmtp, but im a little confused.
"ESMTP does not receive mail, but can deliver mail locally via an MDA."

Ok. Too many things that i do not understand. 
This is much more complicated to do than I thought. No wonder I never
choose to do this part. 

Anyway, ESMTP - this says it delivers mail locally. But I need to sent
it to my mail server and get it back for testing. Or am I just not
understanding. 

wade

On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 11:36 +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> 
> /usr/bin/mail still requires a mail-transport-agent to be installed and
> configured to deliver mail.
> 
> A default ubuntu install should have postfix installed, but unless it
> has been properly configured to deliver mail externally (ie to another
> system), /usr/bin/mail wont work as Wade needs it to.
> 
> If your requirements are simple mail forwarding via a user account,
> the esmtp and esmtp-run packages may be more appropriate.
> 
>