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 logwatch. Ideally, I'd like to set ~root/.forward to point to my user account and then let evolution read /var/spool/mail/myusername.
Is this possible with ssmtp? If not, how do you all solve this problem?
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 qmail.
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