Re: Mail transfer agent
On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 22:29:32 +0100
mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2020-09-24 18:19, Brian wrote:
> > On Thu 24 Sep 2020 at 13:35:17 +0000, mike.junk.46@att.net wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, 09:14:42 PM CDT, Dan Ritter
> >> <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> >> mutt is an MUA, not an MTA.
> >>
> >> What tasks do you want your mail server to perform? Please be
> >> specific. We will have better advice for you once we know
> >> exactly what you want to have happen.
> >> -dsr-
> >> Thanks, Dan,All I need from an MTA is:1) take mail from fetchmail
> >> and put it in a mailbox for mutt to display,2) take mail from mutt
> >> and send it to my ISP via smtp3) take messages from the system,
> >> eg: cron and deliver them to that same mailbox4) take a simple
> >> message on the CL such as: echo 'blah' | mail -s 'oops'
> >> noone@example.com
> >>
> >> I've been using exim for years and it works well but is overkill
> >> for my needs.
> >
> > I too have been using exim for years in a similar way to the way you
> > describe. It does the job very well and I just let it get on with
> > it. I don't really understand what you mean by "overkill" and think
> > you are fussing over nothing.
>
> I know how I get mail.
> I've been using roundcube for a few years. I know I put in the SMTP
> server, account and password for being allowed in the configuration
> but I actually have no idea what is used for the sending. I probably
> should.
>
If you haven't done anything yourself, it will be exim4-light. If it's
not taking raw mail straight from the Net, it doesn't need much in the
way of care and feeding.
Mine is quite aggressively anti-spam, and it only gets a few minor
tweaks a year. I can't remember when I last modified its main
configuration file.
--
Joe
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