sendmail on 20.04

[Bret Busby]

On 21/03/2022, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi All - I have sendmail configured for incoming email.
>
> I send a test email to the box - I have MX records and all that.
> The EMAIL comes to the box - I see it in the mail.log file.
> It says "queued" and not sent/delivered.
>
> Its just a simple test email address - I was expecting that sendmail would
> just PUT the new email in the /var/spool/mail/test
>
> The email is in /var/spool/mqueue
>
> how do I get it actually delivered to the mail box ???
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Jerry
>

I might be wrong in this, but, my understanding is that the use of
sendmail is, as its name indicates, to send mail; for outgoing, rather
than incoming mail.

Years have passed, since I set up a mailserver, but, at the time,
sendmail was regarded as the black arts - a tool of sorcerers, and,
for the common people, postfix, which is what I used, was easier to
set up and operate.

>From memory, for incoming mail, the tools are fetchmail and procmail,
with a POP or IMAP server.

Postfix, if you would be inclined to use it, has a mailing list, and
the mailing list has, I believe, the creator of postix on the list,
helping people.

As I said, I could be wrong in this, but, I believe that sendmail and
postfix are for outgoing mail, with postfix being the easier to set up
and operate, and, fetchmail and procmail are for incoming mail.

You might also want to look at
http://www.courier-mta.org/

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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