Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 05:27:46 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Allan Dib <dib.allan.l@edumail.vic.gov.au>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote MTA Message-ID: <20001208052746.A16901@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <14893.2259.9779.958849@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:25:07AM -0600 References: <2777791@toto.iv> <14893.2259.9779.958849@guru.mired.org>
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On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:25:07AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Allan Dib <dib.allan.l@edumail.vic.gov.au> types: > > Does anyone know how to configure FreeBSD to use a MTA on a remote box. > > i.e I want to use another SMTP server (either another box at my site or > > my ISPs) and not sacrifice functionality by losing use of the "mail" > > command or the daily "Charlie Root" reports. I don't think it should be > > necessary to run sendmail on every FreeBSD box at our site...surely? ... > > You can configure your chosen MTA as a "dumb" server that just blindly > forwards everything it gets to the "smart" server. You should also be > able to configure thing so you don't have to have an SMTP listener on > the "dumb" systems. Once you set one up, you can just clone that to > all the others. That's the idea that my usual setup of running sendmail with sendmail -q5m is based on. No smtp-listener on "dumb" machines, and a SMART_HOST set up properly is all one needs, and everything is fine :-) - giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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