On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:21:31 -0800 > wes <[email protected]> wrote: > > sounds like msmtp is not running. what is its service status? > > > > that's the problem. > > I can find nothing in any of the set-up instructions talking about setting > up as a "listener". they are almost uniformly about using it to send email. > > I probably need a different package to actually have something that will > receive mail. > > >
I agree. is this the msmtp in question? https://marlam.de/msmtp/ if so, your assessment is correct, it is only meant to route emails to some other smtp server. I use a similar package on debian called ssmtp ("simple smtp") and just have it pointed to the incoming smtp server that hosts my own domain email (gmail in this case) so it can only actually send anything to a domain recognized by that server. that way it would be much more difficult for it to be abused for spam. you could probably do the same with porkbun if you felt so inclined. -wes
