sendmail on 20.04

[Bret Busby]

On 22/03/2022, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Typo - "postix" should be "postfix".

> 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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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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