I'm a big fan of postfix. It's config files are in English, and just
about any problem can be solved via a Google search.
It's been a while since I did it, but I seem to recall that Fedora and
RHEL have a "postfix switcher" tool that removes sendmail and replaces
it with postfix.
On 10/8/2010 12:12 AM, Frank D wrote:
---- 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]
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