I have installed msmtp to handle mail I send from mutt using my accounts. But, I would like to get mail from local users, such as cron-jobs and smartmontools as well.
I have researched it, and have found that Gentoo blocks use of more than one Mail Transfer Agent (MTA). This, I found from this forum answer
msmtp is counted as an MTA, and thus, I cannot install sendmail or exim, which my Debian system uses.
So, my alternatives seem to be to either
- configure the
msmtpsendmailsymlink to use one account by default, and use a sane “from” address. - Manually install
msmtpafter emerging another MTA.
The drawback with 1. is that I will get cron mail to one of my accounts, rather than having it local to the computer. And I need to be careful when setting it up, so that I don’t run into the problem in this question.
The drawback with 2. is that it is more of a hack to enable use of two MTAs. I wonder why Gentoo forbids use of two MTAs while Debian accepts it.
To be continued