qmail Removed, Slackware 12.0 RC1, and a MCSE Cert Update
I've been using qmail as my MTA for some time. It was just something that I
installed in order to get mutt to send mail. I never actually used it to
receive mail making it overkill for my purposes. Also, as I've proven in the past, my
knowledge of E-mail servers in general is pretty poor. So, for the sake of
simplicity I've gotten rid of
qmail and gone with
msmtp as a simple "relay only" MTA. All I was doing with
qmail anyway was using the
pobox SMTP server as a smart host anyway. I did some
searching and asking about and sort of randomly chose msmtp. It compiled and
was setup super easy. There are also some useful scripts that let use have
mails go into a simple queue if you are offline to be sent later.
There's not much more to say about it
simply because it was so easy to setup. Part of the motivation for moving away from qmail was because I just don't want
to go though setting it up again. You see, Slackware 12.0 just went RC1 today
and I am likely to upgrade via a fresh install when it is released due to the
cruftieness of my current system. qmail seems to be a great program and I've
heard high praise of it but it's way to much work for what I'd use it for.
Basically I'm just trying to simplify my system down to make the impending upgrade
easier.
On a totally unrelated note, I'm finally getting acceptable results in the
practice exams for the MCSE Cert for work. I figure I'll do a bit of reviewing
and take another practice test or two. If all goes well I'll be scheduling my
exam sooner than later.