Sendmail replacement on a home debian machine

Sendmail replacement on a home debian machine Once in a while I'd like to report a bug using Debian reportbug facility... or use other programs which assume working sendmail. However I'd rather like not to install any mail server on a home desktop machine.
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You should be able to configure debian reportbug to use your ISP's mail server to send outgoing mail (I have comcast and they even allow me to create an extra email address to use).

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"Jeff is right that you should be able to do this directly via reportbug (see the note in the docs about $HOME/.reportbugrc for how to set this up on your machine).

However, if you end up wanting an SMTP server for yourself anyhow, I highly recommend ssmtp. It's an extremely easy-to-use, easy-to-configure SMTP server for a home machine. It also has no dependencies that you shouldn't already have installed, so the installation is trivial and costs you no disk space to try."