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.
Exim&qmail - never touched those.
