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?
Cheers, Gavin
centos-bounces@centos.org <> scribbled on Thursday, July 20, 2006 7:42 PM:
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?
Cheers, Gavin
The default install of sendmail listens on 127.0.0.1 only and should serve your needs if I understand them correctly.
Mike
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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On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 10:42:12AM +1000, Gavin Carr 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?
I actually have exim running on everything around here. Once you learn the ins and outs of configuring it, you can do anything but the most complex configurations in about 2 or 3 minutes tops.
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Gavin Carr 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?
I've always been a fan of msmtp:
It's simple, easy and effective - installs with minimal fuss and provides a nice clean outgoing-only MTA. You can grab a SRPM from here:
http://www.haleph.com/projects/fedora-rpms/
...and simply rpm --rebuild it on any CentOS box to get the flavor you need. I've really only used it on Fedora, but CentOS isn't that far off...
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