Re: Local mail

[Daniel D Jones <ddjones@riddlemaster.org>]

On Saturday 26 March 2005 07:55 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 19:13 -0500, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> > What is the minimum configuration necessary to deliver local mail?  That
> > is, given a machine with multiple users and no external connection, what
> > do I need to enable users to send messages to one another?  Everything I
> > can find on the web talks about setting up sendmail, qmail, exim, etc. 
> > Surely I don't need to install a full featured MTA just to get local
> > mail.
>
> Well, yes, MTAs are how mail gets moved around.

Note the key words "full featured."  Obviously, I need something to function 
as an MTA but sendmail et el seems like overkill.

> >                                                             All I want is
> > to be able to use mail -t or pine and have the messages dropped
> > into /var/spool/mail/username (or ~/.maildir or whatever.)
>
> I recommend postfix.  When you apt-get it, the post-inst script
> will ask you what kind of routing you need, and one of the choices
> is "local".

Thanks.  I'll check it out.