From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B4BCF158086 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2021 20:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B23D52BC037; Wed, 15 Dec 2021 20:38:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net [IPv6:2600:3c00:e000:1e9::8849]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 556A82BC008 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2021 20:38:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Contact-TNet-Consulting-Abuse-for-assistance by tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-3) with ESMTPSA id 1BFKcSKf010310 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2021 14:38:28 -0600 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery agent (MDA) wanted To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20211213204005.3317f4c7@ventiloplattform.tastytea.de> From: Grant Taylor Organization: TNet Consulting Message-ID: <9aab08f6-5766-7ebf-5aa1-5106c9a059db@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 13:38:40 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a3d54161-4066-4a6c-b6fe-b20a7e7f70b5 X-Archives-Hash: 5cd28fd937f6c940ceb8c8d341c53589 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 " | mail ${USER}" to end up in "/var/spool/mail/${USER}". -- Grant. . . . unix || die