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echasslau

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Looking for a tiny MTA

Hi guys.

I'am looking for a tiny MTA only to forward my user mails to my real mailbox.
Perhaps there is a smarter solution than using a MTA daemon. A script using msmtp/ssmtp or so...

Thanks in advance
Andreas

Last edited by echasslau (2010-08-30 21:52:09)

karol

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Re: Looking for a tiny MTA

IIRC mailx-heirloom has it's own MTA.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=765570

Last edited by karol (2010-08-30 21:54:40)

echasslau

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Re: Looking for a tiny MTA

i don't get it. what should i do to forward my mails?
i know the solution with the .forward file...

echasslau

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Re: Looking for a tiny MTA

atm i am able to send mails from the shell, but i want to get the mails created from a cronjob or so

karol

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Re: Looking for a tiny MTA

atm i am able to send mails from the shell, but i want to get the mails created from a cronjob or so

I know nothing about forwarding, but there's no problem in creating a script for cron to execute: take "all those files" and "do this".

fukawi2

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Re: Looking for a tiny MTA

You mention SSMTP.... How does that not do what you want...?

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echasslau

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Re: Looking for a tiny MTA

Perhaps talking about different problems. I've never had mails in my mbox file. But outputs of crons should be there...

I think the problem is that there is no daemon listening for mails and "send" them to the users. How do the mails go into my user mbox?

The forward thing is the second step I think.

fukawi2

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Re: Looking for a tiny MTA

Either you want to forward, OR you want to deliver them locally...?

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vacant

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Re: Looking for a tiny MTA

I've never had mails in my mbox file. But outputs of crons should be there...

man crond

You can send the output anywhere you want (-m), you can use a script (-M) so I guess you could just append it to the end of a file?

Last edited by vacant (2010-08-31 07:51:02)

seiichiro0185

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Re: Looking for a tiny MTA

you could use msmtp for example as described here: cron and msmtp. There is also a page about msmtp in the wiki.

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echasslau

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Re: Looking for a tiny MTA

Hmm, the mails from cron is only one example. Thats not what was my goal.

echo test | mail MyMailAddress

works correct, but

echo test | mail MyLocalUser

should also redirect to my mail address

Is this possible with msmtp/ssmtp?

ataraxia

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Re: Looking for a tiny MTA

You can use exim if you just want local delivery. It requires no setup (other than setting an alias for what user gets root's mail) and you don't have to run any daemon at all if you don't want to.

echasslau

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Re: Looking for a tiny MTA

Thanks ataraxia, exim does excactly what i want...