Please excuse my naivety but my cli skills are typically monitored with sftp and a control panel. Further I don't know if this question belongs in this project.

Installing postfix to make aegir work as required is understood but what is suggested for retrieving emails? Typically I rely on a control panel to install all the various software for email. However a control panel is not recommended to use with aegir so I'm at a loss. I found a great tut for manually establishing your server as a mailserver but I would really rather avoid that headache.

Can anyone suggest an approach for retrieving emails? Until I have something in place setting up aliases for domains won't work because my administration email is not valid from the domain aegir is sitting on.

Or do most folks use an address from somewhere they do have mail service established and not bother using the aegir site for sending, receiving?

Obviously I'm unclear on the whole mail scenario.

Thanks.

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Sorry, receiving e-mail is really not part of the Drupal project. let alone Aegir.. what you are asking is a server-level question that probably belongs in the Forums of the operating system of your choice..

You sound new to system administration / server management, I recommend you look up some documentation on your OS and google for some examples.

As a friendly hint, I run postfix also for receiving mail when i want to run such a mail server that accepts incoming mail, and I use Dovecot for storing and passing that mail to me when I request it in a mail client such as Thunderbird or a webmail interface.

If you're using Ubuntu or something like that, googling 'ubuntu postfix dovecot' will give you a million-and-one Howtos on the topic. Also see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix

But this is outside the scope of Aegir. You do not require the ability to receive mail locally on your server, to run Aegir, unless the recipient e-mail address for which to receive Login one-time links etc are recipients that are only accounts on the local server (in which case you can just use 'mail' or somesuch to read the system-level mail that comes in)