Jeff Abbott wrote: > Chris T wrote, circa 2007-03-28 8:12 AM: > > >> This is really pretty much OT so feel free to ignore. >> >> I've got a group of servers I'm setting up (well a bunch of xen >> instances on a dedicated box, to be precise). I've set up one of them as >> a dedicated MTA (postfix). I don't need (and don't want) MTAs on the >> other servers, but do want to be emailed cron reports and logs from >> logrotate. Is there any good, standard solution to this? Sorry, probably >> dead obvious, but I've google for an hour or so now and haven't come up >> with anything, and this group has been v helpful in he past. >> > > I've used ssmtp for that effect in the past. It appears to be part of > the Debian project since its homepage is: > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/mail/ssmtp.html > > I know it's available out of the box in Gentoo (emerge mail-mta/ssmtp), > and Ubuntu and Debian (apt-get install ssmtp). It's also available in > Fedora Extras which means it could probably be rebuilt pretty easily for > CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or other RHEL derivatives. > > All it does is takes mail and foists it off to another host, > configurable in /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf (or possibly > /usr/local/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf if you've built from source). > > You *can* also use Postfix to do that, with the relayhost parameter in > main.cf, but that'd probably be overkill for what you're after. I'm > also positive that Sendmail can do it, too, provided you have high > enough a skill rating in Arcane Sendmail Configuration Black Arts. > > Hope that helps, > Jeff > > > > > Jeff Yup. That seemed to work fine, although I'm struggling to get the authentication to work with the postfix relay. Do you happen to know if you need to compile from source with auth built in if you want authentication to work. The docs are a little... basic Thanks for your help Chris
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