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I would say postfix for sure. |
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On 10 April 2014 16:52, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 10/04/2014 17:41, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > Am 10.04.2014 17:32, schrieb Grant Edwards: |
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> >> I use msmtp for outgoing mail, and plan to continue to do so. |
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> >> However, I need to temporarily set up an SMTP server to accept |
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> >> incoming mail from "the Internet" for local users. It is not going to |
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> >> handle sending of email, and I need it _not_ to install something as |
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> >> /usr/bin/sendmail (that's already taken by msmtp). It doesn't need to |
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> >> handle queueing, relaying, or anything other than acting as an SMTP |
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> >> server and delivering mail locally to mbox or maildir destinations. |
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> >> What's the easiest/simplest MTA to set up for that? |
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> >> sendmail? (No... just no.) |
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> >> |
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> >> qmail? (Seems a bit overly complex for my use case). |
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> >> postfix? |
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> >> exim? |
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> >> It's been a long time since I've used either postfix or exim, but I |
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> >> don't remember either of them being too complex to configure. |
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> >> I'm guessing that Portgage is going to object to installing both msmtp |
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> >> and postfix/exim, so I'll probably have to build the rx-only MTA from |
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> >> sources and install it in a non-standard location? |
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> >> Maybe I should just write a simple SMTP server in Python. [That's |
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> >> actually a lot easier than it sounds. Python's standard library has |
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> >> an smtpd class that's pretty simple to use.] |
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> > well, IMHO postfix is pretty easy to setup up. While sendmail is a |
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> > complete nightmare. |
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> Agreed. Postfix is about as simple as defining MYDESTINATION and you are |
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> good to go |
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> > Exim&qmail - never touched those. |
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> isn't qmail abandonware? Either that or Dan considers is 100% bug free |
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> and not in need of maintenance.Plus it has that horrible license. |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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Carlos Sura.- |
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