[lug] standalone sendmail

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:28:37 -0700
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org ("Michael J. Hammel") wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 03:19 -0800, karl horlen wrote:
> > I'd like the system to email logwatch messages
> > normally destined for root to go to an external email
> > alias account as specified in /etc/aliases.  
> 
> I do this with ssmtp, which replaces sendmail.  All my hosts behind my
> firewall at home send logwatch email using ssmtp through my imap
> account on my remote server.
> 
> It's hard to find the source for this - I don't remember where I got
> it. But I googled around and found a bunch of mirrors that may hold
> it:
> 
> http://www.filewatcher.com/m/ssmtp_2.61.orig.tar.gz.53341.0.0.html
> 
> Considering I can't seem to find it anywhere else, I think I'll stick
> it on my site too.
> 
> http://www.graphics-muse.org/source/ssmtp_2.61.orig.tar.gz

ssmtp is available from the EPEL repos. 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse

Enabling EPEL in yum will also allow you to get security updates and
the like on the software. 

kevin

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