On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 12:31:12AM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> Not if your own network link is down, which is more likely than your
> ISP's mailservers being down.  You should always have *some* background
> process to periodically check your mail queue (even if it were run from
> cron).  

There are other alternatives - I want one explicitly w/o local queue
(think diskless systems).

Ignatios did a paper with a comparision for decus some time ago, google
should find it, but none of the others is in pkgsrc AFIK.

Martin