On July 22, 2004 07:47, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Wednesday 21 July 2004 05:54 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > > I don't want to run my own mail server (not at the moment). I rely on my > > isp for sending and receiving email. > > > > Is there a simple way to do this? Can I somehow tell kmail to do it for > > me? If not, can someone point me to some good instructions for > > configuring postfix to do what I need without interfering with email > > to/from my isp, and without opening up security holes in my system (e.g. > > an open relay). > > Look for and install a package called esmtp, that mirrors sendmail > functionality but doesn't actually work as an MTA itself, it simply relays > messages to your MTA of choice. In essence, it provides you with full > sendmail compatibility for scripts but it only relays messages just as your > mail client would. > > There are a couple of other packages that do the same thing as well but > esmtp is very simply to setup and configure for what you want it to do. > The only drawback is that it won't route local messages to your machine, > you have to send to fully qualified email addresses because you are are > relaying through an external server. IOW, you can't send message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.
Thanks, esmtp is exactly what I needed. It would have been nice if Mandrake installed this by default. I was trying to use the mail command, but it just dies with an error that /usr/sbin/sendmail is missing. But I suppose it wouldn't work anyway without a suitable config file. -- Ron Hunter-Duvar ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. Rights to use these opinions are granted under the GNU GPL.
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