On 06/02/2008 17:26, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > If I have a production mailserver and a series of Linux servers that > all develop mail from logging etc, it seems slightly redundant to have > so many smtp servers installed on each of those boxes simply > forwarding mail as I choose to not have local delivery. Is there a > mechanism possible in CentOS to setup a pointer to a different > mailserver such that programs like mailx could still send mail? > > > > Currently I have postfix setup with maps so that root on server A has > mail sent from root at server-a.fqdn <mailto:root at server-a.fqdn> and that > is relayed to my production box. It just seems like it is an > additional service to manage on so many hosts? > > > > Thanks! > jlc > There are lightweight SMTP clients that can be used as drop-in sendmail(1) replacements by speaking directly to a remote SMTP server instead of dropping the message in the local queue directory. One that I've used is mini_sendmail (http://www.acme.com/software/mini_sendmail/), though this was a while ago but I seem to recall having some success with it. Others have mentioned the trade-off between the additional complexity of maintaining an MTA on each system and the fault-tolerance such a setup provides, however, you can achieve similar levels of fault tolerance by implementing redundancy on your relay server system(s). I guess it's up to you to figure out what's appropriate to your environment. cheers Luke -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080207/cf87ff40/attachment-0004.html>