On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:52 AM, David Rees <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Chris Buechler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm looking for something simple to do nothing but accept SMTP mail
>> from a defined list of hosts allowed to relay and push it off to
>> another SMTP server (using gmail, so must be with auth and TLS). Must
>> run on FreeBSD. Any full blown MTA is out of the question, too
>> complex. I suspect something out there does just what I'm after, but
>> all I'm finding are MTAs or simple apps that don't accept SMTP over
>> the network. Browsing the mail ports in FreeBSD didn't help, though I
>> could have missed something.
>>
>> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Although it is a full blown MTA, Postfix is lightweight, simple
> configure and reliable.
>

Lightweight for a full blown MTA, but not lightweight. Postfix is what
I started trying actually, but too many missing libraries and other
difficulties into getting it running on a pfSense box without a decent
amount of effort. I suspect there's a tiny, simple daemon somewhere
that will do this without a lot of fuss, I just can't find it. I'd
probably turn it into a pfSense package and slap a simple GUI on it.
It would essentially be a proxy from SMTP to authenticated SMTP,
relaying for SMTP clients on the LAN subnet that don't support
authentication. Or as a single point for sending mail from your LAN if
you don't have an internal mail server. One of those things I wouldn't
run on *my* firewall (that's a server's job), but desired by some and
not entirely unreasonable.

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