[arch-general] Solved : Re: Light-weight SMTP "server"

[Nicolas Bigaouette]

I did something similar but using ssh. Instead of vpn'ing to your home
server, you could ssh to it and remote forward a port to your ISP's smtp
server, like this:
ssh me at home.-R 22025:smtp.isp.com:25
or something like this. You then only need ssh on the server; no vpn (for
that) nor stmp relays...
It worked perfectly for...
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2009/6/5 David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net>

> On Fri, June 5, 2009 6:23 pm, Magnus Therning wrote:
> > Mike Sampson wrote:
> >> I have used msmtp. From memory it just consists of a command line
> >> utility
> >> and a config file containing the mail server you want to use,
> >> credentials if
> >> used, etc. Worked well for me. There are quite a few tutorials on the
> >> web
> >> about using it with mutt.
> >
> > It works beautifully.  I especially like the ability to have a per-user
> > configuration together with a system config (that beats ssmtp).  After
> > replacing dcron by fcron I can now get the cron-output mailed off the
> > machine
> > as well.
> >
> > Thanks for the help!
> >
> > /M
> >
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>
> Just curious, by the way:  msmtp isn't exactly an SMTP "server", correct?
> It's really just a sendmail replacement, right?  (i.e., not a full-fledged
> SMTP daemon, listening on port 25, etc.)
>
> If that's the case, then I don't think I could use it to replace exim.  By
> using exim on my home server (configured to relay mail out to my ISP), I
> can VPN in to the server from my laptop and then have Thunderbird on the
> laptop send mail using the SMTP server on 10.1.0.1:25.  A simple sendmail
> executable on the server wouldn't let me accomplish this.
>
> Exim works perfectly in this configuration, but it's really overkill for
> this purpose, and given Exim's large and confusing config file it'd be
> nice to replace it with something simpler.  But I can live with the status
> quo if I have to.
>
> DR
>
>