On Tue, 27 May 2014 17:41:50 +0100 Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > This is a common problem (I remember hitting it myself, once upon a > time!) The Debian Exim FAQ recommends changing fetchmail's behaviour, > rather than Exim's: > > https://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4UserFAQ#Exim_stops_delivery_after_ten_messages_are_received This reminds me of something I've wanted for a long time. I'd prefer not to have an MTA anywhere on my LAN. I'm not smart enough to securely configure an MTA, even if it isn't sendmail. As things stand, I grab incoming mail with fetchmail, which pushes the mail to procmail, which drops it in the correct maildir directories of my local Dovecot server. On the few occasions when I want to do a mass-mailing (legal, to existing customers), I use nullmailer to implement the mail and sendmail executables. The one and only reason I have Postfix on my desktop computer is to receive mail from addresses local to my local dovecot: Mainly root, which emails me every time a cron job writes to stdout. I haven't yet figured a way to get either procmail or nullmailer deliver local to my local Dovecot. The day I figure out how to do that is the day I blow postfix right off my box, and never have an MTA again. I'm not an admin, and it's a bad idea for me to be in charge of an MTA. Does anyone know how I can achieve delivery of local users without using an MTA? I'm thinking some sort of shellscript for the mail and/or sendmail executables that does some magic and then calls /usr/bin/procmail -d %T. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140527135347.17d874d7@mydesk
