From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery agent (MDA) wanted
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 13:38:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9aab08f6-5766-7ebf-5aa1-5106c9a059db@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MW2PR07MB4058057A592ADD9F96526287D2769@MW2PR07MB4058.namprd07.prod.outlook.com>
On 12/15/21 1:21 PM, Laurence Perkins wrote:
> So one thing that's annoyed me for a while is that there are several
> things which will pull in nullmailer to accept local mails, but don't
> pull in anything to do local delivery (And I'm not sure if nullmailer
> can even pass things to local delivery) so your local delivery mails
> by default just stack up in the nullmailer outbound queue unless you
> configure it to pass them off to an external mail system.
>
> Since the most commonly used of these programs are things like cron
> where local delivery is probably the only thing most users would
> care about it might be nice if the default configuration were one
> that does that, and then those who want local mail relayed elsewhere
> still don't have any significant extra setup work to do.
The idea of having a default mail configuration that would deliver
locally originated messages (e.g. from cron) to local user's mailboxes
(mbox) in /var(/spool)/mail makes sense to me.
I don't think I'd /personally/ us it b/c I run full MTAs on all my
systems. But that's /me/. I realize that I'm atypical.
But I would +1 a simple config that does local delivery from "<foo> |
mail ${USER}" to end up in "/var/spool/mail/${USER}".
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-15 20:38 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
2021-12-14 23:34 ` Grant Taylor
2021-12-15 20:21 ` Laurence Perkins
2021-12-15 20:38 ` Grant Taylor [this message]
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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