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Am Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 07:19:19PM -0700 schrieb Grant Taylor: |
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> On 12/18/21 4:00 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> > Just for the record and completeness’ sake: ... I found out that the |
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> > program was actually called dma -- the DragonFly BSD mail transport |
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> > agent, not mda. |
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> Thank you for sharing your find Frank. |
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> The DragonFly BSD MTA looks interesting. I'll have to check it out. |
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> Especially if it's small and intended for local delivery and / or getting |
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> messages off of box all the while without exposing an SMTP port. |
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A little update report. After the setup of dma went so smoothly on my Arch |
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installations, I wanted to recreate it on my Gentoo-based NAS over the |
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weekend: |
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- cloned the dma repo¹ and installed everything |
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- removed everything from /var/spool/mail and any leftover queues for a |
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clean start |
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- changed the sendmail path in fcron.conf from usr/bin to usr/local/bin |
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- had to amend /etc/mailutils.conf, because it sets up the root mailbox as |
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a maildir called .maildir (according to the comment, that is Gentoo- |
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specific). So I just commented out that block to (hopefully) get GNU |
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maildir default behavior |
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Now I finally get mails from cron et al on my NAS and can read them with |
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mail or mutt. I can sleep better now, knowing that it will monitor its four |
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6 TB disks and notify me at the first sign of trouble, including “there is |
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new mail” on the console. \o/ |
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There is one last niggle: after I read a message with the mail tool, it |
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saves those messages in /root/mbox. It does not do this on Arch, but keeps |
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them in /var/spool/mail/root instead. So far I haven’t found out why it does |
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that and where that might be configured. Perhaps some leftover config from |
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previous experiments with different mail packages. |
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¹ https://github.com/corecode/dma |
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