On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:21:41PM +0100, Chris G wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:00:43PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > El día Thursday, October 28, 2010 a las 11:50:23AM +0100, Chris G escribió: > > > > > I have a small home LAN and have one machine set up as a server machine. > > > That machine has postfix on it fully configured to both send and receive > > > mail. > > > > > > Is it possible to use the sendmail (well, postfix's sendmail) on that > > > machine from other machines on the LAN to send mail? Otherwise I have > > > to configure each machine my ISP's smarthost SMTP details whereas if I > > > use my LAN machine's sendmail I only need to set up the smart/relay host > > > in one place. > > > > > > If it is possible how do I configure the various mutts to use it? > > > > You could configure each sendmail to use your central box as relay > > (smarter host) or you can set in each mutt something like: > > > But then I have to install and configure an MTA on every machine. > > > set smtp_url=smtp://your-central-box/ > > > Yes, I guess this is the way to do it, just seems wrong somehow to > convert it all to SMTP and back. Will it work just as above with no > user name or password? I guess I can just try it. > Seems to work OK, I get to see all the negotiations on the status line too.
-- Chris Green
