RE: [SLE] mail command

Hi, SuSEconfig is a nice and clean solution only if you are in SuSE. I think it's also good to know the "bad way" which can be used everywhere ;) Martin

* Martin Mielke; on 12 Feb, 2004 wrote:

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Hi again,

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It's set up to relay, I can do it from windows with netmailbot specifying -server 1.2.3.4 and it works, but can't work out how to tell Linux to use a specific server.

Pete.

Install a MTA such as Postfix and configure it to point to your SMTP server. The way to do it: edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and change/add 'relayhost = x.x.x.x' to the correct IP address or hostname (see comments on file).

I would suggest rather then blindly editing /etc/postfix.main.cf use what the system provides in /etc/sysconfig/postfix and then call SuSEconfig --module postfix

# Should we use a mailrelay? # NOTE: ALL mail that is not considered to be my destination # (POSTFIX_LOCALDOMAINS), will be sent to this host. # If this host is not your MX, then you have to use [square brackets] # around the hostname, e.g. [relay.suse.de] # You may also specify an alternate port number, e.g. # relay.suse.de:26 or [relay.suse.de:26] to prevent MX lookups. # POSTFIX_RELAYHOST=""

By the way any parameter you can add, change in /etc/postfix/main.cf is doable via /etc/sysconfig/postfix

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