Re: Running an MTA (Exim) on GuixSD

[Chris Marusich]

Hi Mark and Andy,

Thank you for the quick response. I'll take a look at the information
you've shared. It'd be nice to be able to do my email from within
GuixSD!

Thank you,
Chris

On 11/19/15, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:
> Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I'm using GuixSD 0.9.0. It seems the only Mail Tranfer Agent (MTA)
>> packaged so far is Exim. However, simply installing it doesn't seem to
>> enable the sending of email (e.g., via 'git send-email'). I'd like to
>> run Exim as a daemon on system start-up so that I can send email from
>> within GuixSD. Has anyone already made a service configuration for
>> Exim in GuixSD? Is anyone currently using Exim on GuixSD as an MTA at
>> all?
>
> Not that I know of, but it would be good to have.
>
>> If not, I'd be interested in helping to make it happen.
>
> That would be great :)
>
>> I'm just not familiar with running Exim or writing service
>> configurations for GuixSD, so some pointers on how to start would be
>> very welcome! I can probably figure the rest out as I go.
>
> Section 7.2.14 (Defining Services) in the Guix manual is the relevant
> reference.
>
> I guess the two existing services that are most similar to what would be
> needed for an exim-service are 'nginx-service' in gnu/services/web.scm
> and 'postgresql-service' in gnu/services/databases.scm, so I would look
> there for inspiration.
>
> Feel free to ask more questions as they arise.
>
>      Thanks!
>        Mark
>