Re: [gentoo-user] What MTA to use to receiving mail for local users?

[Alan McKinnon]

On 10/04/2014 17:41, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> Am 10.04.2014 17:32, schrieb Grant Edwards:
>> I use msmtp for outgoing mail, and plan to continue to do so.
>>
>> However, I need to temporarily set up an SMTP server to accept
>> incoming mail from "the Internet" for local users.  It is not going to
>> handle sending of email, and I need it _not_ to install something as
>> /usr/bin/sendmail (that's already taken by msmtp).  It doesn't need to
>> handle queueing, relaying, or anything other than acting as an SMTP
>> server and delivering mail locally to mbox or maildir destinations.
>>
>> What's the easiest/simplest MTA to set up for that?
>>
>> sendmail? (No... just no.)
>>
>> qmail? (Seems a bit overly complex for my use case).
>>
>> postfix?
>>
>> exim?
>>
>> It's been a long time since I've used either postfix or exim, but I
>> don't remember either of them being too complex to configure.
>>
>> I'm guessing that Portgage is going to object to installing both msmtp
>> and postfix/exim, so I'll probably have to build the rx-only MTA from
>> sources and install it in a non-standard location?
>>
>> Maybe I should just write a simple SMTP server in Python. [That's
>> actually a lot easier than it sounds.  Python's standard library has
>> an smtpd class that's pretty simple to use.]
>>
> well, IMHO postfix is pretty easy to setup up. While sendmail is a
> complete nightmare.

Agreed. Postfix is about as simple as defining MYDESTINATION and you are
good to go

>
> Exim&qmail - never touched those.

isn't qmail abandonware? Either that or Dan considers is 100% bug free
and not in need of maintenance.Plus it has that horrible license.



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Alan McKinnon
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