[arch-general] smtp daemon

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Johannes Held wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What about postfix?
>>>> A friend of mine installed and configured it just some days ago on our
>>>> vserver
>>>> (running ArchLinux).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you...
>>>
>>> That would work but I would like something smaller/lighter if I can find
>>> something.
>>>
>>> I am only wanting to send an email from smartctl to the email server.  I
>>> have it working on the mailserver and want to make it work on the desktop
>>> level.
>>>
>>> Like this
>>>
>>> 00   00  *  *  * /usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/sda | mail -s smartctl-sda
>>> root at localhost
>>>
>>
>> Aha, this is a little different then. For situations like this, I
>> always configure msmtp to send via my google account. Could that be an
>> option?
>>
>
> Maybe I am looking at the wiki on msmtp now.
>
> GNU Mailutils might work too the following is from GNU mailutils
>
> mail.remote
> The mail.remote is designed as a drop-in replacement for /usr/lib/sendmail
> to forward mail directly to an SMTP gateway.

Ah yeah, if you're just forwarding mail to an existing mail server,
you shouldn't need daemons or anything - there's a lot of mail
forwarders out there: nbsmtp, msmtp, ...