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tiesman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:03:39AM -0500, kashani wrote: |
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>>Mark Shields wrote: |
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>>>qmail! I use it on my home server and I love it. |
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>>Didn't he say something about a simple MTA? :-) |
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> Exactly kashani. I do thank you Mark, for a quick answer. But can you also give |
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> me an example config file (or any clues, to get it up and running), because it |
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> is the whole intention to find a MTA suitable for a quick install (or a complex |
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> MTA, with some kind of noob 'config-mode'). |
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> Don't get me wrong, if there's no way of making this work easy, I'll dig in a |
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> mail sysadmin guide or so. But I think it would be useful to have a simple MTA |
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> available for Gentoo, wouldn't it? |
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The problem is that doing local delivery properly does require some |
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infrastructure. However a stripped down local server could probably drop |
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most of the queuing that goes on in an MTA. The final package is still |
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going to be complicated enough which is why a psuedo MTA isn't an |
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interesting problem for anyone capable of writting a real mail server. |
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Or at least that's my take on it. |
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In any case this should get Postfix working within 15 minutes including |
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compile |
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emerge postfix |
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You might need to unmerge ssmtp before you install postfix |
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vi /etc/mail/aliases |
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point to root to a local account |
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newaliases |
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makes your aliases active |
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vi /etc/postfix/main.cf |
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ctrl +g to get to the bottom, add these lines |
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myhostname = hostname.yourdomain.com |
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mydomain = yourdomain.com |
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myorigin = $myhostname # or you can make it $mydomain |
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inet_interfaces = all # or set to localhost if you don't want the server |
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to be able to receive any email |
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mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain # |
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or some subset of these. |
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mynetworks_style = subnet |
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mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 # and any other IP's you'd like to allow to |
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relay though I don't think you need any |
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/etc/init.d/postfix start |
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postconf -n |
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so you verify the right settings are what Postfix is using. If this is |
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off look at the main.cf and delete any duplicates. IIRC Postfix uses the |
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last config which is why we put all the configs at the end of the config |
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file. |
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rc-update add postfix default |
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While not simple I think Postfix is one of the easier MTA's to get up |
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and running quickly. |
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kashani |
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