Re: [gentoo-user] simple mta for local delivery
Mark Shields wrote: qmail! I use it on my home server and I love it. Didn't he say something about a simple MTA? :-) kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] simple mta for local delivery
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:03:39AM -0500, kashani wrote: Mark Shields wrote: qmail! I use it on my home server and I love it. Didn't he say something about a simple MTA? :-) Exactly kashani. I do thank you Mark, for a quick answer. But can you also give me an example config file (or any clues, to get it up and running), because it is the whole intention to find a MTA suitable for a quick install (or a complex MTA, with some kind of noob 'config-mode'). Don't get me wrong, if there's no way of making this work easy, I'll dig in a mail sysadmin guide or so. But I think it would be useful to have a simple MTA available for Gentoo, wouldn't it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] simple mta for local delivery
tiesman wrote: On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:03:39AM -0500, kashani wrote: Mark Shields wrote: qmail! I use it on my home server and I love it. Didn't he say something about a simple MTA? :-) Exactly kashani. I do thank you Mark, for a quick answer. But can you also give me an example config file (or any clues, to get it up and running), because it is the whole intention to find a MTA suitable for a quick install (or a complex MTA, with some kind of noob 'config-mode'). Don't get me wrong, if there's no way of making this work easy, I'll dig in a mail sysadmin guide or so. But I think it would be useful to have a simple MTA available for Gentoo, wouldn't it? The problem is that doing local delivery properly does require some infrastructure. However a stripped down local server could probably drop most of the queuing that goes on in an MTA. The final package is still going to be complicated enough which is why a psuedo MTA isn't an interesting problem for anyone capable of writting a real mail server. Or at least that's my take on it. In any case this should get Postfix working within 15 minutes including compile emerge postfix You might need to unmerge ssmtp before you install postfix vi /etc/mail/aliases point to root to a local account newaliases makes your aliases active vi /etc/postfix/main.cf ctrl +g to get to the bottom, add these lines myhostname = hostname.yourdomain.com mydomain = yourdomain.com myorigin = $myhostname # or you can make it $mydomain inet_interfaces = all # or set to localhost if you don't want the server to be able to receive any email mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain # or some subset of these. mynetworks_style = subnet mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 # and any other IP's you'd like to allow to relay though I don't think you need any /etc/init.d/postfix start postconf -n so you verify the right settings are what Postfix is using. If this is off look at the main.cf and delete any duplicates. IIRC Postfix uses the last config which is why we put all the configs at the end of the config file. rc-update add postfix default While not simple I think Postfix is one of the easier MTA's to get up and running quickly. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] simple mta for local delivery
Postfix is probably the easiest to setup out of the lot of sendmail, exim, qmail, postfix. --- Chris Covington IT Plus One Health Management 75 Maiden Lane Suite 801 NY, NY 10038 646-312-6269 http://www.plusoneactive.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] simple mta for local delivery
kashani wrote: tiesman wrote: On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:03:39AM -0500, kashani wrote: Mark Shields wrote: qmail! I use it on my home server and I love it. Didn't he say something about a simple MTA? :-) Exactly kashani. I do thank you Mark, for a quick answer. But can you also give me an example config file (or any clues, to get it up and running), because it is the whole intention to find a MTA suitable for a quick install (or a complex MTA, with some kind of noob 'config-mode'). Don't get me wrong, if there's no way of making this work easy, I'll dig in a mail sysadmin guide or so. But I think it would be useful to have a simple MTA available for Gentoo, wouldn't it? The problem is that doing local delivery properly does require some infrastructure. However a stripped down local server could probably drop most of the queuing that goes on in an MTA. The final package is still going to be complicated enough which is why a psuedo MTA isn't an interesting problem for anyone capable of writting a real mail server. Or at least that's my take on it. In any case this should get Postfix working within 15 minutes including compile emerge postfix You might need to unmerge ssmtp before you install postfix vi /etc/mail/aliases point to root to a local account newaliases makes your aliases active vi /etc/postfix/main.cf ctrl +g to get to the bottom, add these lines myhostname = hostname.yourdomain.com mydomain = yourdomain.com myorigin = $myhostname # or you can make it $mydomain inet_interfaces = all # or set to localhost if you don't want the server to be able to receive any email mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain # or some subset of these. mynetworks_style = subnet mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 # and any other IP's you'd like to allow to relay though I don't think you need any /etc/init.d/postfix start postconf -n so you verify the right settings are what Postfix is using. If this is off look at the main.cf and delete any duplicates. IIRC Postfix uses the last config which is why we put all the configs at the end of the config file. rc-update add postfix default While not simple I think Postfix is one of the easier MTA's to get up and running quickly. kashani searched for local mail howtos, too :) great little howto, workds, thanks ! :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] simple mta for local delivery
qmail! I use it on my home server and I love it. [ Results for search key : ^qmail$ ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * mail-mta/qmail Latest version available: 1.03-r15 Latest version installed: 1.03-r15 Size of downloaded files: 383 kB Homepage: http://www.qmail.org/ http://members.elysium.pl/brush/qmail-smtpd-auth/ http://www.jedi.claranet.fr/qmail-tuning.html Description: A modern replacement for sendmail which uses maildirs and includes SSL/TLS, AUTH SMTP, and queue optimization License: as-is On 10/2/05, tiesman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I'm looking for a simple mta, which also can do local delivery. I'm usingnbsmtp now, to get mail off the system to the smtp server of my isp. But I'dlike to have local delivery for cronjobs (or anything similar), but I really don't want to emerge sendmail or postfix, if I don't have to.I was thinking, there must be a simple solution for this problem, isthere?TIA, Tiesps I've been searching in google and gentoo forums, but couldn't find a satisfactory answer, I apologize if this has come up recently or is just a FAQ.--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- - Mark Shields
