---- Jerry Moody <[email protected]> wrote: > I need a recommendation for a simple mail server for my home servers > (Fedora). I want to allow smartd (et al) to send internet email when it > detects drive errors. I'm currently receiving the following error:
If you need an SMTP agent, Exim is pretty small and easy to configure. Sendmail is a nightmare, and I recommend you use it only if you have a desire to torture yourself. I hear Postfix is also pretty easy to configure. > postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file > or directory > so I suspect I have no mail server running. AFAIK postdrop is part of Postfix, so perhaps you have Postfix in and it isn't configured correctly? > I don't need to read or manually send email on these headless systems. A > quick internet search yields sendmail and postfix as options, amongst > others. I certainly don't need a sophisticated enterprise service. > Suggestions? > If I understand you right, you want to recieve mail on one of the machines? Or are they going outside of your network? I'm pretty sure you don't even need a MTA (mail transfer agent, ie sendmail) with smartd, etc. if it's going to another machine. Though I've never had a machine without an MTA, or looked to see exactly how they send mail.. so I couldn't say for certain. Frank DiMitri IBM Pok 007-2, Bonnie & Clyde test; pSeries mainframe kicker [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Nov 3 - Open Source Hardware: Bugs, Beagles and Beyond Dec 1 - IBM's Open Client Deployment Jan 5 - Building a Comunity Site with Drupal
