From: tastytea <gentoo@tastytea.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery agent (MDA) wanted
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:49:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211214004918.6fa08606@ventiloplattform.tastytea.de> (raw)
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On 2021-12-13 23:12+0100 Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 10:34:08PM +0100 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger:
>
> > Using strace, I found out that mail from mailx puts those mail into
> > /var/spool/clientmqueue/, one file per mail, but not in a maildir
> > structure.
>
> OK, I found out that this is the usual outgoing queue which needs to
> be processed by sendmail, probably through another cronjob or a
> process that itself checks that directory periodically.
Hmm, I'm pretty sure this worked a few years ago. I just tested it on a
system on which I didn't configure mail before. My mails ended up in
/var/spool/nullmailer/queue. :-(
> > In many places I read that system mail—by default—goes into
> > /var/spool/mail/<user>, but until now I’ve yet to observe this
> > behavior.
>
> It’s really not easy to find a description of the default setup of
> olden days (or I’m simply using the wrong search terms). Because when
> you search for something like unix local mail setup, most results are
> about setting up an SMTP server. In hindsight—perhaps that is simply
> the way to go. :-/
A lot of packages depend on virtual/mta, including mailx. It seems you
have no choice but to configure one of the MTAs virtual/mta depends on.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-13 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-12 13:25 [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery agent (MDA) wanted Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-12 14:23 ` Alexey Mishustin
2021-12-12 23:36 ` William Kenworthy
2021-12-13 9:36 ` Peter Humphrey
2021-12-13 9:50 ` William Kenworthy
2021-12-13 19:40 ` tastytea
2021-12-13 20:11 ` Grant Taylor
2021-12-13 21:34 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-13 22:12 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-13 23:49 ` tastytea [this message]
2021-12-14 23:34 ` Grant Taylor
2021-12-15 20:21 ` Laurence Perkins
2021-12-15 20:38 ` Grant Taylor
2021-12-15 3:26 ` Ralph Seichter
2021-12-18 23:00 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-19 2:19 ` Grant Taylor
2021-12-19 14:23 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-20 19:08 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-20 19:10 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-20 20:00 ` Grant Taylor
2021-12-20 22:09 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-12-20 22:28 ` Grant Taylor
2021-12-20 22:37 ` Wol
2021-12-20 23:38 ` Grant Taylor
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