Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:42:39AM -0400, Paul Reavis wrote: > > What would y'all recommend as a minimal mail setup for a firewall > > system. Quite a few things seem to depend on _some_ sort of MTA, but I > > don't want SMTP (I'm redirecting SMTP to an internal mail server). > > You are probably looking for ssmtp > Description: Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a Mailhub > A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to your > mailhost. No suid-binaries or other dangerous things. No mail spool to poke > around in. No daemons running in the background. Mail is simply forwarded > to the configured mailhost. Extremely easy configuration. > . > WARNING: the above is all it does. It does not receive mail, expand > aliases or manage a queue. That belongs on a mailhub with a system > administrator.
What about mail addressed to root? Is it simply forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This sounds OK to me - I can hardcode the destination mailhub and feel reasonably good about things, barring packet sniffers on my internal network or a compromised mailhub. > > On a related note, does anyone have any good schemes for getting logs > > off a firewall reasonably securely, so they can show up in your email? I > > hate having to constantly log in to check them, but feel that just > > email/fetchmail out from the machine is chancy. > > Depends on your exact mail setup, I think. Maybe make a script that would > download the logs to some other box using scp and mail them locally then to > your account's mailbox. Hmm... that sounds reasonable too. -- Paul Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Design Lead Partner Software, Inc. http://www.partnersoft.com
