Entering question mark ?, brings up command help. mail basics are, q to quit, m to compose, enter and spacebar to move through messages. Just type mail and you get a CLI email list. Mail -s 'test' (your user name) works great to get the CRON messages on the machine.

It can be tested by sending a message to yourself by using. On the server, which only has a CLI, I wound up using mail instead of T-bird, installed via sudo apt-get install mailutils I was glad I found this as, I thought it might be tricky and with these instructions it was a few minutes on each machine.

I really liked the instructions, very easy to set up.

Test catch-all: send new email to Click on 'Get Mail' and you'll see the message at Inbox.

Using Thunderbird, send new email to replacing with your user account.

This step have two purposes: test your install and stop the Unable to locate mail spool file.

Restart (close and reopen) Thunderbird.

Don't use use Ingoing and Outgoing server will be: localhost

Your account will be (of course, replace with your user account).

Under Account Actions choose 'Add Other Account'.

Click in the Settings button at top right (similar to Chrome settings) then click on Preferences > Account Settings.

Skip the welcome screen (click in the button to use existing accounts).

Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install thunderbird 6 - Configure Thunderbird

If you're under non systemd distro, like Ubuntu 14.04, service restart command probably is: sudo service postfix reload.

Virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual

And check if this line is enabled, or add it if not exists:.

Add the following 2 lines content, replacing with your Unix user.

3 - Configure Postfix to Local onlyĭuring postfix install process, the configure text dialog will display five options: General type of mail configuration:įor the domain name, use the default suggested and finish the install.Įnabling this, you can use any email address ending with or here, my unique account is But while testing systems, I can use any address like etc, because all will be redirected to If not exists, create file /etc/postfix/virtual: MacOSX: Postfix is already installed by default. So, edit /etc/hosts file to make the domain point to your machine, including this content to the file:ġ27.0.0.1 2 - Install Postfixįedora/CentOS/RHEL: sudo yum install postfix Most of programs will not accept an email using just as domain. Setup a Local Only SMTP Email Server (Linux, Unix, Mac) 1 - Point to your machine

Mac smtp server