From: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery agent (MDA) wanted
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 22:34:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ybe8UCwwfsSKAZtn@kern> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211213204005.3317f4c7@ventiloplattform.tastytea.de>
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Am Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 08:40:05PM +0100 schrieb tastytea:
> On 2021-12-12 14:25+0100 Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > Hey list,
> >
> > I am looking for an as-simple-as-possible setup for local mail
> > delivery. What I mean by that is: the mail shall go into
> > /var/spool/mail locally, which is why I deem it overkill to set up
> > and run a complicated smtpd daemon with its own config file language.
>
> mail-client/mailx provides /usr/bin/mail which can be used for looking
> at mail in /var/spool/mail/ and for sending it to local users. No
> configuration necessary. cron and other software will automatically use
> it.
OK, it looks promising -- very neatly small and tiny. But:
lcars ~ # echo hello | mail root
lcars ~ # mail
No mail for root
lcars ~ #
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.
I had similar issues with mailutils’ mda. The ebuild installs no manpage and
the package’s website simply points to debian.org. -_-
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 becoming a little frustrating by now. This is also not my first attempt
at this; I tried this before in the past years but never reached the goal.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-13 21:34 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 [this message]
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
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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