[ale] Doing without Sendmail

[jem]

I recently upgraded my box to Mandrake 7.1, having previously been with
Mandrake 7.0.  As I'm in the queue to get a DSL connection, I decided to
change some of what I used to have set up.

Previously, I had Sendmail setup with masquarading so that I could send
messages while off-line and they would queue up.  Every morning at
3:00am my system would dial into MSpring and download all my emails and
the Usenet groups I read.

Because I had Sendmail setup, I would also receive nightly security
emails from cron.

Now, with my re-install, I decided not to run Sendmail or any SMTP
server.  I figure that once I go DSL, I'll just identify my providers
SMTP and not worry about it.

However, now I don't get the security messages.  I can't configure an
aliases file to send all ROOT mail to my user account.  I can't even
install the mutt RPM as it depends on there being an smtpdeamon.

I know that mail will put mail into my /var/spool/mail/$USER folder and
I can create new security scripts that utilize mail.  That's not a major
problem.

What I'm curious about, is does anyone have suggestions for setting up
my box to function as if an SMTP server is present when it isn't.

Sendmail, Qmail and Postfix are awful heavy weight.  I've been following
NullMailer as a replacement, but I'm not comfortable with it yet.

An aside question, can someone suggest a graphical mail program that
can:
	setup filters into multiple folders
	thread the messages
	connect directly to a POP3/IMAP server 
	
Currently I'm using Netscape (but it's threading is bad).  I like mutt,
but don't want to use fetchmail/procmail to filter messages into
multiple folders (tho that is how I used to do it).

Just curious if anyone has any suggestions.

Thanks,

JEM

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