From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1AF8138A1F for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:54:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BDE2BE0B57; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:54:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com (mail-we0-f174.google.com [74.125.82.174]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8C207E07E8 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:54:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f174.google.com with SMTP id t60so4518804wes.5 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:54:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=ZEVRTmaGm1iYH+yqe2kzNX3BqPF53Fm95HPVMcKYNZk=; b=aO+vdOi4ZSnN8ttJdl9VjnhhWcCYWjdzzG+grmPdJr7yIqLOY/f77A0zldiP05Gd0e dzTktjy0hazVENF9pW/k/9hjIoVD+gYxaOatBYgbIRMViByZIntZI6WA64QN7axkiSBi 742mU7e2ta2B84tsJ4NjVsAn5vfQSFJs7jKp+PpAfYUo3a5cLXSz9RZELOikL7RfvXR2 0NoQXK00nt7SpZ8Pxd7Fi4etCoCUid64jwiC0RYlSCMbEdWWUywehKL7BtAIOoWjPrn9 Hl4q9wvsZa1IQmXcyDZjNoJf641ZpSsj+7jPZOZa//HQRnGWuKOQqdqZh7JjCTgE36/V g6qQ== 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.191.195 with SMTP id ha3mr786680wjc.69.1397170481393; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:54:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.187.4 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:54:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <534720A3.1000009@gmail.com> References: <5346BB91.6050101@googlemail.com> <534720A3.1000009@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 16:54:41 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What MTA to use to receiving mail for local users? From: Carlos Sura To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7ba970bc3bf53004f6b81a7d X-Archives-Salt: 19499a2d-72c1-4e15-9720-aa87c261d05b X-Archives-Hash: 6bb12d53b8da62d0f70c39aac74a6e5b --047d7ba970bc3bf53004f6b81a7d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I would say postfix for sure. On 10 April 2014 16:52, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 10/04/2014 17:41, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > 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. > > Agreed. Postfix is about as simple as defining MYDESTINATION and you are > good to go > > > > > Exim&qmail - never touched those. > > isn't qmail abandonware? Either that or Dan considers is 100% bug free > and not in need of maintenance.Plus it has that horrible license. > > > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan.mckinnon@gmail.com > > > -- Carlos Sura.- www.carlossura.com www.carlossura.com/blog --047d7ba970bc3bf53004f6b81a7d Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I would say postfix for sure.


On 10 April 2014 16:52, Alan McKinno= n <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/04/2014 17:41, Volker Armin Hemmann wr= ote:
> 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. =A0It= 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). =A0It doesn= 't need to
>> handle queueing, relaying, or anything other than acting as an SMT= P
>> 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 ex= im, but I
>> don't remember either of them being too complex to configure.<= br> >>
>> I'm guessing that Portgage is going to object to installing bo= th msmtp
>> and postfix/exim, so I'll probably have to build the rx-only M= TA from
>> sources and install it in a non-standard location?
>>
>> Maybe I should just write a simple SMTP server in Python. [That= 9;s
>> actually a lot easier than it sounds. =A0Python's standard lib= rary 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.

Agreed. Postfix is about as simple as defining MYDESTINATION and you are good to go

>
> Exim&qmail - never touched those.

isn't qmail abandonware? Either that or Dan considers is 100% bug free<= br> and not in need of maintenance.Plus it has that horrible license.



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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com





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