[gentoo-user] Local mail delivery - ssmtp maildrop...?

2003-12-27 Thread Stroller
Folks, Happy festive stuff. I hope you have all sated much consumerist avarice and enjoyed gouts of inebriated hedonism at this time of religious spiritual neglect. I'm hoping that someone can advise me about local mail delivery. At present any messages produced by my cron jobs are emailed,

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery - ssmtp maildrop...?

2003-12-27 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:38:10 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a sendmail replacement which does what I require, please..? with the risk of being selfpromoting, might this setup be what you require? http://dev.gentoo.org/~spider/local-mail-0.3.0/local-email.html

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery - ssmtp maildrop...?

2003-12-27 Thread Stroller
On Dec 27, 2003, at 9:51 pm, Spider wrote: begin quote On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:38:10 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a sendmail replacement which does what I require, please..? with the risk of being selfpromoting, might this setup be what you require?

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery - ssmtp maildrop...?

2003-12-27 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:03:04 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe I read your excellent article some time ago, when I setup Courier-IMAP. However at that time I'd already committed to mailfilter for filtering of incoming mail; it's my understanding that postfix does

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery - ssmtp maildrop...?

2003-12-27 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:03:04 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe I read your excellent article some time ago, when I setup Courier-IMAP. However at that time I'd already committed to mailfilter for filtering of incoming mail; it's my understanding that postfix

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery - ssmtp maildrop...?

2003-12-27 Thread Stroller
On Dec 27, 2003, at 10:52 pm, Spider wrote: begin quote On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:03:04 + Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's my understanding that postfix does many of the same things as mailfilter. Is this correct..? Or am I confusing postfix with procmail..? as a followup to my

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery?

2003-11-21 Thread Martin Horak
Even better is IMHO courier. It's based on qmail's idea, but is a little bit normalized. -- quoting Luke Scharf -- Darnit! Oh well -- back to running Sendmail (and typing sendmail -q0 ; sendmail -bp) for me. :-) If you don't want to hack cryptic config files, I suggest

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery?

2003-11-21 Thread Keith Dart
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 23:21, Martin Horak wrote: Even better is IMHO courier. It's based on qmail's idea, but is a little bit normalized. I just installed courier. I think it is great. It comes with everything! An IMAP server, POP3, filters (replaces procmail), SSL, and of course ESMTP MTA. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery?

2003-11-21 Thread Ric Messier
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Martin Horak wrote: Even better is IMHO courier. It's based on qmail's idea, but is a little bit normalized. I've had problems with courier in the past but I can't remember off-hand what they are. The best one I've seen for ease of use and maintainability is postfix.

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery?

2003-11-21 Thread Luke Scharf
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 02:21, Martin Horak wrote: Even better is IMHO courier. It's based on qmail's idea, but is a little bit normalized. I've used Courier in the past, and it rocks! But I thought it was better suited for large installations... It's been a long time since I set it up, though,

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery?

2003-11-20 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Luke Scharf -- Darnit! Oh well -- back to running Sendmail (and typing sendmail -q0 ; sendmail -bp) for me. :-) If you don't want to hack cryptic config files, I suggest you give Postfix or Qmail a try. Last one is a bit strange, but if you got it, it's extremly

[gentoo-user] Local mail delivery?

2003-11-18 Thread Luke Scharf
I'm running ssmtp (the default sendmail program, I think) on Gentoo. It works great for sending messages (like this one), but it doesn't seem to do too well for local mail delivery. The only things that I use local mail delivery for are reading the results of cronjobs and for things like

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery?

2003-11-18 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Luke Scharf wrote: I'm running ssmtp (the default sendmail program, I think) on Gentoo. It works great for sending messages (like this one), but it doesn't seem to do too well for local mail delivery. The only things that I use local mail delivery for are reading the results of cronjobs and for

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail delivery?

2003-11-18 Thread Luke Scharf
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 15:52, Andrew Gaffney wrote: ssmtp does not work this way. It is pretty much a mail gateway. I don't know if it can be done the way you propose without a full mail server. The only way I know to get local mail delivery is with a full mail server such as sendmail or

Re: [gentoo-user] local mail delivery

2003-08-27 Thread Greg Donald
What do I need to do to get local mail delivery? sauron root # qpkg -f `which mail` net-mail/mailx * I now have mailx installed, thanks. But now I got different issue. echo test | mail -s test root send-mail: Cannot open gateway:25 telnet 0 25 Trying 0.0.0.0... telnet: Unable to

[gentoo-user] local mail delivery

2003-08-26 Thread Greg Donald
I seem to have no local mail delivery: echo test | mail -s test root -/bin/bash: mail: command not found So I started poking around and see that I already have ssmtp installed. It seems unconfigured so I make some obvious changes to /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf. At this point I don't know how to

Re: [gentoo-user] local mail delivery

2003-08-26 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 26 August 2003 23:14, Greg Donald wrote: What do I need to do to get local mail delivery? sauron root # qpkg -f `which mail` net-mail/mailx * HTH - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [gentoo-user] local mail delivery

2003-08-26 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Greg Donald wrote: I seem to have no local mail delivery: echo test | mail -s test root -/bin/bash: mail: command not found So I started poking around and see that I already have ssmtp installed. It seems unconfigured so I make some obvious changes to /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf. At this point I