Re: [gentoo-user] What MTA to use to receiving mail for local users?

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

Am 10.04.2014 17:32, schrieb Grant Edwards:
> I use msmtp for outgoing mail, and plan to continue to do so.
>
> However, I need to temporarily set up an SMTP server to accept
> incoming mail from "the Internet" for local users.  It is not going to
> handle sending of email, and I need it _not_ to install something as
> /usr/bin/sendmail (that's already taken by msmtp).  It doesn't need to
> handle queueing, relaying, or anything other than acting as an SMTP
> server and delivering mail locally to mbox or maildir destinations.
>
> What's the easiest/simplest MTA to set up for that?
>
> sendmail? (No... just no.)
>
> qmail? (Seems a bit overly complex for my use case).
>
> postfix?
>
> exim?
>
> It's been a long time since I've used either postfix or exim, but I
> don't remember either of them being too complex to configure.
>
> I'm guessing that Portgage is going to object to installing both msmtp
> and postfix/exim, so I'll probably have to build the rx-only MTA from
> sources and install it in a non-standard location?
>
> Maybe I should just write a simple SMTP server in Python. [That's
> actually a lot easier than it sounds.  Python's standard library has
> an smtpd class that's pretty simple to use.]
>
well, IMHO postfix is pretty easy to setup up. While sendmail is a
complete nightmare.

Exim&qmail - never touched those.