From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 8 18:37:49 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 18:37:46 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D5B37B400 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 18:37:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b059.otenet.gr [195.167.121.187]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eB92abk06521; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 04:36:47 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eB83Rli16963; Fri, 8 Dec 2000 05:27:47 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 05:27:46 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Mike Meyer Cc: Allan Dib , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote MTA Message-ID: <20001208052746.A16901@hades.hell.gr> References: <2777791@toto.iv> <14893.2259.9779.958849@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <14893.2259.9779.958849@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:25:07AM -0600 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:25:07AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Allan Dib 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