Two of my least-favorite open source products are Postfix and anything that interfaces with it. I use Postfix and Dovecot extensively and still find new annoyances with both of them. My major gripe is the lack of a simple package in Ubuntu that simply asks questions and then automatically does stuff based on the answers to set up a working mail server.
The objective of this post is to show a simple setup of Postfix and Dovecot for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to enable command-line scripts on a box on a local network to send e-mail to itself and then retrieve those e-mails over POP3 using a normal e-mail client. This is NOT a full-blown e-mail server setup. It is a notification message drop with POP3 access. The e-mail client will only be able to retrieve e-mails from the box (not send them), which completely eliminates the possibility of the box accidentally turning into a remote mail relay.
First, install Postfix and Dovecot:
sudo apt-get install postfix sudo apt-get install dovecot-pop3…
The objective of this post is to show a simple setup of Postfix and Dovecot for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to enable command-line scripts on a box on a local network to send e-mail to itself and then retrieve those e-mails over POP3 using a normal e-mail client. This is NOT a full-blown e-mail server setup. It is a notification message drop with POP3 access. The e-mail client will only be able to retrieve e-mails from the box (not send them), which completely eliminates the possibility of the box accidentally turning into a remote mail relay.
First, install Postfix and Dovecot:
sudo apt-get install postfix sudo apt-get install dovecot-pop3…