Re: [Evolution] outgoing mails file/folder in newer versions

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 22:44 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 18:29 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On 5 September 2013 09:43, Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk> wrote:
> >         The only reliable way is to use sendmail.  If you need a copy
> >         of the
> >         message, then BCC: yourself and within Evolution setup a
> >         filter to move
> > the message to the Sentmail folder.
> > I've found http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/SendEmail/ to work
> > quite well in this sort of situation, without having to deal directly
> > with sendmail (which is not for the faint of heart).
>
> Someone still uses Sendmail??? Yeah, sendmail sucks.

Ah, come on, dealing with sendmail.cf is good for the soul - even the
most minor tweak makes you feel that you've achieved something.  Where's
your sense of adventure. :-)

To be honest though, I used "sendmail" as a generic term - what the MTA
behind the symbolic link actually is doesn't matter, the way it's used
is the same. (I prefer exim, I use postfix for simple configs, I still
have sendmail installed lots of places.)

> But configuring Postfix as an SMTP *client* is pretty darn trivial.

They are all actually fairly trivial if all you want to do is send an
occasional mail.  Postfix is probably the easiest though.

P.