RE: mail (local mail)
I'd go with postfix, which also already provides a reasonably short default "localhost only" configuration and is pretty secure by design.
Compared to sendmail, the configuration is easily comprehensible and extensible for everybody (again adding to security).
I wouldn't recommend working with sendmail if there's no existing infrastructure relying on it, you have specific sendmail knowledge or need it for some other special purpose that can only be achieved with it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Allums [mailto:mark@allums.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 11:09 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: mail (local mail)
>
> Xavier J. B. L. wrote:
> > Recently I drop exim4 packages (# apt-get remove exim4 exim4-base
> > exim4-config exim4-daemon-light) and so it removes "at" and "bsd-mailx".
> >
> > Now I haven't mail (because it drops me bsd-mailx).
> > But I want having mail for simply:
> > - read /var/mail
> > - when I login, shell says me "you have a mail" and I can run "mail"
> > or similar program
> > - I can send local mails (from xan@localhost to root@localhost, etc.)
> >
> > What program fits into my needs (without reinstalling exim4, postfix or
> > equivalents)?. Or I have to install mail server?
> > Does anyone know it?
> >
> > I putting this question in arm list and it says me that I have to post
> > here.
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lotm
> > Xan.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Mostly, you want a server. It is pretty much the only way. If
> resources are scarce, you can try various things, but programs which
> send local mail expect it to Just Work.
>
> You don't have to have mail, but it is conceivable that something will
> break. Mail is part of any standard system, excepting embedded.
>
> Look at the list of packages available, using the web or Aptitude or
> Synaptic or whatever. Look for something that is mature and fairly
> lightweight. It needs to be an MTA. It doesn't need to support POP3 or
> IMAP necessarily; that is what Icedove (Thunderbird), Mutt, PINE, etc.
> are for.
>
> Good ol' sendmail will work. It is reasonably light and fairly efficient.
>
> Mark Allums
>
>
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