[CentOS] nullmailer recommendations

Mon Jul 24 17:01:29 UTC 2006
Troy Engel <tengel at fluid.com>

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:

   http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/

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...

-te

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