Non local mail delivery

tpe · 01-31-2009, 11:10 AM

HI all,
The title is not very accurate, but I cannot express my question otherwise.

I have 4 openSuse in my home office. One of them is the home server (File server, Samba, DNS, IMAP, postfix etc). On all 4 servers a local installation of postfix runs for the local mail delivery. I want to change that. I want all system mails (from crontab, local scripts etc) to be send directly at the home server's trusted user.
How can I do that?

Thank you
Peter

repo · 02-01-2009, 04:11 AM

You can change the recipient in
/etc/aliases
root: yourmailadres

tpe · 02-02-2009, 11:05 AM

Yes, but that is not my point. I want to have only one SMTP server running, on the home server. All other boxes should use THAT smtp/IMAP server. Is it possible with that solution?
And what happens with the local applications of each box. For example, if a box has a perl script that uses the "mail" command, how will it send the mail if the system does not know how to handle it? It cannot be so simple.

farslayer · 02-02-2009, 11:50 AM

replace the SMTP server with sSMTP

http://packages.debian.org/stable/mail/ssmtp
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/SSMTP
http://www.linux.com/feature/132006

tpe · 02-08-2009, 10:06 AM

Although it's a much smaller server, it still is a server. I want to use the clients. Not the servers. For example, the mailx has that option, but that means I have to explicitly tell to the mail command what to do. Unfortunately, this is not an option, since (for example) some mail clients rely on the local sendmail command! I know that I ask for something strange, but...