Jerry Moody wrote: > > I need a recommendation for a simple mail server for my home servers > (Fedora). I want to allow smartd (et al) to send internet email when > it detects drive errors. I'm currently receiving the following error: > postdrop: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such > file or directory > so I suspect I have no mail server running. > > I don't need to read or manually send email on these headless systems. > A quick internet search yields sendmail and postfix as options, > amongst others. I certainly don't need a sophisticated enterprise > service. Suggestions?
Avoid Sendmail like the plague. :) I think most any MTA will do, since Postfix and qmail won't use many resources if they're not actually being asked to do much of anything, and there's a "lite" version of Exim that's probably intended for this kind of use. Then there's all the little ones that really don't do anything but move mail to some other mail server, and it's hard to screw that up so badly it doesn't work (though I've seen this), so any of them are probably just fine. That said, I think "postdrop" is specific to Postfix, which you probably have installed, but perhaps not configured correctly (which is a surprise, the Fedora package should have given you a working Postfix for the usage you're looking for "out of the box"). The collective wisdom of Google suggests the following: sudo mkfifo /var/spool/postfix/public/pickup sudo /etc/init.d/postfix restart - Ron _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Nov 3 - Open Source Hardware: Bugs, Beagles and Beyond Dec 1 - IBM's Open Client Deployment Jan 5 - Building a Comunity Site with Drupal
