On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 07:47:28PM +0100, Csányi Pál wrote:
I am following https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-mail.html
chapter to set up mail on my old laptop.
Hi!
I believe you just want to send and receive e-mails from your mail
server, don't you? If so, I recommend installing a simple MTA from
pkgsrc. I use mail/msmtp. Then, in /etc/mailer.conf you change the
"sendmail" line to point to /usr/pkg/bin/msmtp. To retrieve e-mail via
IMAP I use pkgsrc's mail/isync.
I have done a complete Postfix setup before, but only when configuring a
full SMTP server, not using it as a local MTA to send e-mail from
applications like mutt.
The chapter should be updated to deal with all the "new" stuff e-mail
requires, like using the submission port, using STARTTLS (or SSL), etc.,
when configuring mail servers, and have examples on using simple tools
(like msmtp or isync) for normal users.
