[lug] Re: "Simple" mail MTA setup?

[Phil Rasch]

Sorry,

I didnt see all the replies, and I think that Jeremy Hinegardner may have
given me a really good start on the simple recipe I requested.

Phil

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 08:43:07AM -0700,  wrote:
> I have been watching with interest the questions and advice the blug
> have been giving to D. Stimits. It is great to see people willing to
> help each other and the amount of expertise within the group.
> 
> Maybe somebody can help me with a vaguely related project.
> 
> I want to configure an MTA that does the following:
> 
> 1) accepts mail only from localhost
> 2) forwards the mail on to an smtp server which I will call the
>    smarthost for the rest of this email.
> 3) uses SSL or TLS to encrypt the transactions
> 4) can supply a password and username to the smarthost for verification.
> 5) DOES NOT INDICATE THE IP NUMBER THAT THE MAIL ORIGINATES FROM IN
>    THE HEADER BUT IDENTIFIES IT AS ORIGINATING FROM THE SMARTHOST.
> 6) is fully configured in 5 minutes
> 7) supports queueing of mail
> 
> A bit of explanation of the requirements is in order.
> 
> I want this for home machines and particularly a laptop I travel
> with.
> 
> I need item 5 because a number of groups that I mail to use blacklists,
> and my broadband provider for my house is comcast. My mail is
> occasionally trashed because of my mail originating from a
> number in the comcast ip block.
> 
> I have tried many of the standard MTA software (postfix, exim,
> sendmail, qmail) etc. I have spent hours trying these, only to find
> that the IP number gets encoded in the headers, and my mail is
> rejected by some small number of destinations. It is definitely not
> trivial to set them up anyway.
> 
> My current solution is to use msmtp or esmtp, which are truely trivial
> to get working. The only problem with them is the queuing issue. 
> The transaction takes place in real time. So I can't do mail while the
> laptop is disconnected, and need to wait while the transaction is
> negotiated even when it is connected, which is occasionally 
> mildly annoying.
> 
> Of course I can avoid all of this if I use an MUA that works with the
> smarthost directly (thunderbird, kmail, etc). But I like to use mutt,
> and even occasionally mailx, or formail, and also I want system
> notifications, and various PHP scripts looking for sendmail to work as
> well.
> 
> There is probably some magic incantations of one of the sophisticated
> MTAs I mention above, but there is no way that I can get it without 
> a lot of work. Maybe one of you can give me the incantation? Or make
> another suggestion?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Phil
> 
>