I'm looking for recommendations on what works well for people, since
this doesn't appear to be covered by the FAQ or AOBSD2E. I know several
ways to accomplish what I'm after, but none of them seem to have any
clear advantage over the other.
1. I have about a dozen OpenBSD systems running (5.4-RELEASE), all of
which share a common list of users, all of which generate email
automatically.
2. Only one of those systems is the designated mail server. I would
like all the other systems to immediately relay any and all email to the
mail server.
3. I don't want to have to manually maintain /etc/mail/aliases on each
and every system for each and every user; sooner or later I'll miss one.
4. I'd prefer to use smtpd(8) instead of sendmail(8), but I'm even
willing to run software from ports, if it's clearly
better/cleaner/smaller/etc.
So, I know I can achieve the effect I want by putting every user on
every machine in /etc/aliases with something like:
athompso athom...@central.mail.server
Or I can achieve the same effect by putting a .forward file in every
home directory on every machine, but both of these options are laborious
and thus error-prone.
I know how to do this with Postfix, but installing Postfix from ports
just to forward mail to a central mailhost seems like... overkill?
I think I might be able to remember how to do this with Sendmail, but
I'm not sure. I've stayed as far away from sendmail as I can.
And I'm not at all clear on how to accomplish this with smtpd.
I assume *someone* here must have a similar situation - what worked (or
didn't) for you?
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-Adam Thompson
athom...@athompso.net
