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kashani wrote: |
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> tiesman wrote: |
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>> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:03:39AM -0500, kashani wrote: |
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>>> Mark Shields wrote: |
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>>>> qmail! I use it on my home server and I love it. |
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>>> Didn't he say something about a simple MTA? :-) |
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>> Exactly kashani. I do thank you Mark, for a quick answer. But can you |
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>> also give |
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>> me an example config file (or any clues, to get it up and running), |
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>> because it |
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>> is the whole intention to find a MTA suitable for a quick install (or |
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>> a complex |
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>> MTA, with some kind of noob 'config-mode'). |
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>> Don't get me wrong, if there's no way of making this work easy, |
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>> I'll dig in a |
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>> mail sysadmin guide or so. But I think it would be useful to have a |
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>> simple MTA |
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>> available for Gentoo, wouldn't it? |
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> The problem is that doing local delivery properly does require some |
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> infrastructure. However a stripped down local server could probably |
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> drop most of the queuing that goes on in an MTA. The final package is |
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> still going to be complicated enough which is why a psuedo MTA isn't |
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> an interesting problem for anyone capable of writting a real mail |
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> server. Or at least that's my take on it. |
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> In any case this should get Postfix working within 15 minutes |
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> including compile |
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> emerge postfix |
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> You might need to unmerge ssmtp before you install postfix |
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> vi /etc/mail/aliases |
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> point to root to a local account |
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> newaliases |
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> makes your aliases active |
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> vi /etc/postfix/main.cf |
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> ctrl +g to get to the bottom, add these lines |
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> myhostname = hostname.yourdomain.com |
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> mydomain = yourdomain.com |
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> myorigin = $myhostname # or you can make it $mydomain |
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> inet_interfaces = all # or set to localhost if you don't want the |
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> server to be able to receive any email |
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> mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain |
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> # or some subset of these. |
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> mynetworks_style = subnet |
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> mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 # and any other IP's you'd like to allow to |
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> relay though I don't think you need any |
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> /etc/init.d/postfix start |
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> postconf -n |
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> so you verify the right settings are what Postfix is using. If |
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> this is off look at the main.cf and delete any duplicates. IIRC |
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> Postfix uses the last config which is why we put all the configs at |
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> the end of the config file. |
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> rc-update add postfix default |
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> While not simple I think Postfix is one of the easier MTA's to get up |
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> and running quickly. |
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> kashani |
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searched for local mail howtos, too :) |
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great little howto, workds, thanks ! :) |
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