I would say postfix for sure.
On 10 April 2014 16:52, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> 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.mckin...@gmail.com > > > -- Carlos Sura.- www.carlossura.com www.carlossura.com/blog
