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I thought the gentoo default mail program is nullmailer? Changed from |
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smtpd(? or something named similar) some time back. Simple, reasonably |
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versatile and has easy configuration. |
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BillK |
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On 12/12/21 21:25, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> Hey list, |
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> I am looking for an as-simple-as-possible setup for local mail delivery. |
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> What I mean by that is: the mail shall go into /var/spool/mail locally, |
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> which is why I deem it overkill to set up and run a complicated smtpd |
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> daemon with its own config file language. |
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> At my previous employer we used mda on our Ubuntu-based machines, but this |
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> is not available in Gentoo. It did extactly what I am looking for: receive |
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> mail (most importantly from cron) via pipe and put it right into the spool |
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> file, so I can see a message upon login and read it with mutt. That’s all |
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> I need, so I can get summary reports of zfs snapshots, smartd messages and |
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> so on. |
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> I was looking through wiki articles, but they all employ the usual beasts |
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> postfix, courier and so on. Do you have any recommendations? |
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> Much obliged. |
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