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From: William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery agent (MDA) wanted
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 07:36:33 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb64f670-3179-c769-1a65-7c4c49fca75f@iinet.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YbX4NWz2n7TLjKPc@kern>

I thought the gentoo default mail program is nullmailer? Changed from 
smtpd(? or something named similar) some time back.  Simple, reasonably 
versatile and has easy configuration.

BillK


On 12/12/21 21:25, Frank Steinmetzger 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.
>
> At my previous employer we used mda on our Ubuntu-based machines, but this
> is not available in Gentoo. It did extactly what I am looking for: receive
> mail (most importantly from cron) via pipe and put it right into the spool
> file, so I can see a message upon login and read it with mutt. That’s all
> I need, so I can get summary reports of zfs snapshots, smartd messages and
> so on.
>
> I was looking through wiki articles, but they all employ the usual beasts
> postfix, courier and so on. Do you have any recommendations?
>
> Much obliged.
>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-12 23:36 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 [this message]
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
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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