Sad Clouds <cryintotheblue...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone who uses Postfix perform local mail redirection to a > central mail hub? If yes, can you suggest what settings you use? > > Specifically, I'm interested in this scenario: > > By default each NetBSD install is configured to deliver local mail > to /var/mail. Most of it is daily/weekly scripts, uptime and > performance metrics, etc. I would like to change that and instead > redirect all local mail from multiple machines to a central mail hub. > > There is a specific account, e.g. ad...@example.com which receives such > mail and monitors any issues on a daily basis. The problem is, sending > mail to this account requires SASL authentication. I've been looking at > Postfix SASL documentation and it looks like it may be possible to make > it work with "smtp_sasl_password_maps = ..." in main.cf. > > Has anyone done this before? Is this a good way to consolidate local > mail from different machines or is there something better? I was > thinking of copying logs via ssh to a central storage, but email may > work better with multiple admin people monitoring from different > devices, e.g. laptop, desktop, phone, etc. All that is required is an > IMAP client on each device. > > PS. I'm not subscribed to this list, please CC me if you decide to > reply.
Take a look at this tutorial: https://wiki.sdf.org/doku.php?id=postfix_mta_on_netbsd_6.x It's for an earlier version of NetBSD but should still work. It's written for SDF users (the main SDF servers run NetBSD) but I think you should be able to glean the pertinent bits. -B
