Dear Ian, On Wed 20 Sep 2017 at 08:23:33 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Despite being one of the retro/traditionalist guys on this list, I have > to say installing sendmail just for this purpose doesn't seem > proportionate. Even if you don't want to look into the smallish MTA > packages (nullmailer etc.), you can make /usr/sbin/sendmail to be a > pretty trivial script (or a link to one) that just locks the destination > mailbox and appends the input to it. Heck, procmail could do that.
I appreciate your opinion. I normally seek to avoid unnecessary complication and find the right tool for the job. Since this is my first Gentoo install, this is the first time I had to pick an MTA by myself. Not knowing much about MTAs I though Sendmail was a common/traditional choice and would therefore probably serve my need. I will check out nullmailer and other MTAs to see if they better fit my need without adding extra complexity. As I wrote John I was able to resolve the issue so I can take my time now. Thank you, Bas -- Sebastiaan L. Zoutendijk | [email protected]
