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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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> 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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Exim&qmail - never touched those. |
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