Dear Gregor, Many thanks for your messages!
Gregor Zattler (2022/09/08 10:24 +0200): > there is https://github.com/xundeenergie/exim4-multiaccount, > which worked for me, but I always felt uneasy because I did > not grok the configuration. I can understand the feeling, yes. Also, I had a look and it's all in german! Not that I don't understand german at all, but still, it's not as easy as english and makes it feel it's a niche thingthat never really took over... > > I was advised to use msmtp but, although it has the feature I am looking > > for, it misses two features of exim4 that I find useful: local e-mail > > delivery to users' maildirs and the ability to queue emails composed while > > the computer is off-line so that they get sent the next time the network > > becomes available. > > I use exim4 now for local delivery only (think cron job > mails) Yes, that's also what I had in mind, cron. Plus the e-mails that are sent by the Debian installer and some other services andwhich, thanks to Exim, end up in the spool mailbox of my main user, which I find something valuable and would prefer not to lose. > and msmtp for delivery from my local account to > smarthosts. There are no other users on my system=laptop. I have the same configuration here. > Package msmtp features a queueing mechanism implemented via > shell scripts. Its buried in the example directory of it's > documentation. I set links from /usr/local/bin/msm... to > /usr/share/doc/msmtp/examples/msmtpq/msm... and use msmtpq > as sendmail: > > $ lt /usr/local/bin/ | grep msm > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Aug 8 2021 msmtpq -> > /usr/share/doc/msmtp/examples/msmtpq/msmtpq > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Aug 8 2021 msmtp-queue -> > /usr/share/doc/msmtp/examples/msmtpq/msmtp-queue > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Aug 8 2021 msmtpQ -> msmtpq > > > It either sends email straight to the smarthost or queues > it. There is not *automatic* queue maintenance nor > notification if mails were queued instead of sent. There is > a log file though. Next time you send another email the > queue will be emptied (if possible). It would be nice to also have a cron job that regularly tries to send queued e-mails, in case the network appears. Or someting bound to the event of the network becoming available. I don't know which of these ways exim4 uses to achieve sending queued e-mails but I imagine it must be one of these two. > There also is a package "msmtp-mta" which I did *not* > install since it conflicts with exim4. Yes, I noticed that to and I think if I finally follow the msmtp route I'll do exactly like you suggest. > But I need exim4 for local delivery. Same here. > In sum msmtp is configured for my single user and exim4 as a > system wide local delivery MTA. That approach seems reasonable to me. The only thinkg I'd maybe regret is that, as I understandit, there is a way to achieve the same with just exim but fully understanding it seems difficult, if one wants to do more than just copy/pasting code blindly, which often does notwork anyway. > For local delivery into maildirs I still use fetchmail. Ah well on my system exim recognizes that a spoofile is a directory and then treats it as a maildir, I think. For the rest I connect directly to imap servers with mutt nowadays, although I have been a fetchmail user for years and still don't leave mails on servers. > > Ciao; Gregor Gregor Zattler (2022/09/08 17:49 +0200): > Hi Sébastien, debian users, > * Gregor Zattler <telegr...@gmx.net> [2022-09-08; 10:24 +02]: > > In sum msmtp is configured for my single user and exim4 as a > > system wide local delivery MTA. > > I forgot, this is the last part of my .msmtprc: > > # use exim4 for local addresses > account exim4 > host localhost > tls off > > ### Set a default account > account default : exim4 > > > > Ciao; Gregor Many thanks for your two answers! I don't know yet which of the proposed solution I will end-up using, it feels like it will require some more pondering, but in any case I find your response really valuable and addressing the quesiton in a precise and complete manner! Best wishes, Sébastien.
