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.mckin...@gmail.com
