[CentOS] nullmailer recommendations

Gavin Carr gavin at openfusion.com.au
Fri Jul 21 02:45:56 UTC 2006


On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 07:45:45PM -0500, Mike Kercher wrote:
> 
> > Just wondering what people tend to use for nullmailers on
> > their centos boxes (i.e. a minimal outgoing-only MTA)? I
> > guess the obvious solution is a minimal postfix config, but
> > that seems reasonably heavyweight and easy to misconfigure -
> > is there anything lighter floating around the centos universe?
> 
> The default install of sendmail listens on 127.0.0.1 only and should
> serve your needs if I understand them correctly.

No, I don't want SMTP at all, just local mail injection (e.g. via
/usr/lib/sendmail). Plus there are the same (or even more) issues as
with postfix - too big and heavy, easy to misconfigure, etc. This is
for all the regular linux hosts on a lan, not the mail servers.

Cheers,
Gavin




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