Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery agent (MDA) wanted

[Grant Taylor]

On 12/15/21 1:21 PM, Laurence Perkins wrote:
> So one thing that's annoyed me for a while is that there are several
> things which will pull in nullmailer to accept local mails, but don't
> pull in anything to do local delivery (And I'm not sure if nullmailer
> can even pass things to local delivery) so your local delivery mails
> by default just stack up in the nullmailer outbound queue unless you
> configure it to pass them off to an external mail system.
>
> Since the most commonly used of these programs are things like cron
> where local delivery is probably the only thing most users would
> care about it might be nice if the default configuration were one
> that does that, and then those who want local mail relayed elsewhere
> still don't have any significant extra setup work to do.

The idea of having a default mail configuration that would deliver 
locally originated messages (e.g. from cron) to local user's mailboxes 
(mbox) in /var(/spool)/mail makes sense to me.

I don't think I'd /personally/ us it b/c I run full MTAs on all my 
systems.  But that's /me/.  I realize that I'm atypical.

But I would +1 a simple config that does local delivery from "<foo> | 
mail ${USER}" to end up in "/var/spool/mail/${USER}".



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Grant. . . .
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