[Cialug] sendmail

David Champion dave at visionary.com
Thu Aug 4 13:30:15 CDT 2005


Would you prefer that it didn't even receive any mail in the first 
place? This would be accomplished by adding "MX" records in your DNS 
that just point to the mail server instead of your web server.

-dc

n.d wrote:
> i want it to send all mail it gets to another server. nondiscriminant is 
> what i'm looking for.  i've tried smtp direct delivery and its being 
> stupid for some reason and i'm not in the mood to fix it heh. so i'm 
> going to try sendmail and pray that does that job while i get around to 
> fixing the smtp issue.
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> John Roach wrote:
> 
>> Yes, Do you just want your server to send it off to a different box , or
>> do you want to do criteria based filtering? If you are using Perl or php
>> on your forms, it can output to sendmail for SMTP direct delivery. If
>> you don't want any other relaying, you can turn off sendmail and let it
>> be called command line only for outbound.
>>
>> John Roach
>> Information Technology
>> Easter Seals Iowa
>> (515) 274-1529 Ext. 276
>>
>> T
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
>> Behalf Of n.d
>> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 1:01 PM
>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>> Subject: [Cialug] sendmail
>>
>> is there a way i can use sendmail so it redirects all mail it gets to a
>> different server?
>>
>> i want to have all mail traffic generated from my website to get handled
>> internally and then sent to its final destination. there will be no
>> incoming connections on this sendmail other than from the webserver
>> itself. i hope this made sense.
>> i would look for the answer to this myself, but i really don't even know
>> what i'm looking for.
>> thanks.




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