Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 19:01:55 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> To: Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hot to configure simple mail forwarder? Message-ID: <4651D083.9010602@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <26ddd1750705210757w2672e259hfccb33e690425b90@mail.gmail.com> References: <26ddd1750705210757w2672e259hfccb33e690425b90@mail.gmail.com>
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Maxim Khitrov wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have what I hope is a rather simple question. I'm not very familiar > with this area of system administration, so hopefully someone here can > point me in the right direction. I just got myself a FreeBSD VPS to > host a few of my websites. I need the processes on the server (PHP, > for example) to be able to send e-mail via /usr/sbin/sendmail. The > thing is that I don't actually want to run a mail server. My vps is > severely limited on disk space, and any mail I get I'll forward to my > gmail account anyway. I can obviously configure sendmail or postfix to > do this for me, but this seems a bit excessive for what I'm trying to > do. The mail load will be very light, and I'd prefer to conserve disk > space. Is there a port, perhaps, that will simply forward all mail > transmitted to /usr/sbin/sendmail to the destination SMTP server? The > only other thing it has to be able to do is use the aliases file to > determine the real e-mail of root, for example. > > Like I said, I'm not too familiar with setting up mail servers, so if > this makes no sense to you please suggest an alternative. Just to > recap, I don't need local mail storage and I don't need the server to > accept mail from anything other than the local processes running on > the server. Just need it to read the destination e-mail address (or > get it via aliases), connect to the MX server for that domain, and > transmit the message. If there isn't any simple daemon that will do > this, can you recommend either how to configure sendmail or something > like postfix to do this? The idea is to minimize resource usage (disk > space, memory, cpu time). Sounds to me you just have to enter the proper aliases (in /etc/mail/aliases), run "newaliases", and you're done, i.e. point everything to your own e-mail address?
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