On Thursday 11 December 2008 17:21:54 Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:25:14PM +0100, Gaute Amundsen wrote: > > Slightly OT this, but I can't think on any other obvious place to ask, > > and an hour of googling turned up little. > > > > The question: > > What are my options if I don't want to run a full blown mail server, and > > really only want all mail delivered to a single local mbox or maildir? > > What do you mean by "all mail"? Just locally submitted mail, or also > SMTP mail from the Internet for one or more domains? > > > Basically I run smartmontools and a number of cronjobs on my laptop and I > > want to get the reports and alerts, but I want to avoid the overhead of > > running and maintaining a full mailserver. > > > > I have a sneaky feeling that I am somehow not seeing the forest for all > > the trees, or my assumptions are wrong, but I can't put my finger on it.. > > With Postfix, just make the SMTP server local and make all domains local: > > inet_interfaces = 127.0.0.1 > mydestination = static:all > alias_maps = static:yourlogin > > The only downside is that pickup will wake up every 60 seconds and scan > /var/spool/postfix/maildrop. This may defeat power-management and prevent > the disk from spinning down. > > So perhaps you should use Sendmail, with "sendmail -q" run once an hour > from cron, and no sendmail daemon started when the system boots. > Configuring Sendmail to deliver all mail to a single local mailbox is not > too difficult, just short-cut rule-set 0: > > S0 > $+ $#local $: yourlogin > > This has a lower run-time footprint than Postfix.
Hm. very pragmatic approach. I'm afraid I'm somewhat more pigheaded than that :) See my reply to Jorey Bump. I have however made a quick hack on which I would love comments. See next post. Gaute
