Re: Setting up postfix

[Csányi Pál <csanyipal%gmail.com@localhost>]

Silas <silas%nocafe.net@localhost> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. jan. 17., Cs, 14:14):
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 07:47:28PM +0100, Csányi Pál wrote:
> >I am following https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-mail.html
> >chapter to set up mail on my old laptop.
>
> Hi!
>
> I believe you just want to send and receive e-mails from your mail
> server, don't you?

Yes, exactly. This is a very old laptop and I want to send-receive
mails eg. to this mailing list, among others, and nothing more.

> If so, I recommend installing a simple MTA from
> pkgsrc.  I use mail/msmtp.  Then, in /etc/mailer.conf you change the
> "sendmail" line to point to /usr/pkg/bin/msmtp.  To retrieve e-mail via
> IMAP I use pkgsrc's mail/isync.

I'm using Gmail and I set my box for POP3, but not for IMAP.

> I have done a complete Postfix setup before, but only when configuring a
> full SMTP server, not using it as a local MTA to send e-mail from
> applications like mutt.

I want here to use mutt only, and fetchmail and procmail.

> The chapter should be updated to deal with all the "new" stuff e-mail
> requires, like using the submission port, using STARTTLS (or SSL), etc.,
> when configuring mail servers, and have examples on using simple tools
> (like msmtp or isync) for normal users.

I agree with that.

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Best, Pali