[lug] sendmail

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Thu Feb 15 22:02:24 MST 2001


On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:35:55PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 04:41:25PM -0500, Hugh Brown wrote:
> >I've got a number of workstations that I don't really want sendmail to
> >do anything but forward the mail to the actual mail server.
> 
> Bruce's nullmailer is meant to do this without having sendmail running
> on a bunch of boxes.
> 
> 	http://em.ca/~bruceg/nullmailer/

Nice!  I think Postfix would work well for this type of setup also.

Personally I'm partial to Exim, which can be set up rather easily to do
this as well.  They call it "Satellite Server" mode in Debian.

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Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>

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