The Open Source Journal

I can't recall the first mail transport agent (MTA) that I used when I first got started with Gentoo. I'm fairly certain it was not sendmail and I think it was, in fact, postfix itself (this is way before Gentoo made ssmtp the default). Since I had no interest in running an email server back then, I used it only for local mail delivery, and as it turns out, configuring postfix for local mail delivery only is surprisingly easy.