[NMLUG] simple mail forwarder

[Wesley J Landaker]

On Monday 05 January 2004 12:22 pm, Aaron Birenboim wrote:
>    I have a Debian-LINUX server here at work.
> I want it to be able to forward mail to an official
> mail server on this network.  (I know we have Exchange...
> I'm trying to find out if there is an SMTP server someplace)
>
>    What would be the easiest way to do this?
> A simple sendmail config?  Other, simpler mail program?
>
>    There is no need for this machine to ever store mail.
> It should just forward to user's standard mail systems.
> (I could just make a .forward for every user.... or set
> up aliases.)    Its mostly just so CVS/Bugzilla can send
> change notices to developers.

I have found postfix <http://www.postfix.org> very flexible and easy to 
set up. Their main site has links to all sorts of documentation and 
howtos. It's kind of the apache of MTAs, however, meaning that it might 
be overkill for the setup you're talking about. I know it would work 
fine, though. =)

Other options are exim & qmail. Both look fairly friendly, and I know 
they'd easily do what you want as well, but I have never actually put 
either of them into production. They are both widely used.

But, please, by all that is good and holy, whatever you do, DON'T use 
sendmail. 

-- 
Wesley J. Landaker - wjl at icecavern.net
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