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== Install Nullmailer ==
== Install Nullmailer ==
  # emerge nullmailer -va
  # emerge nullmailer -va
This may pull in supervise-scripts, which will then require:
<font color=red>hostname</font> <font color=blue>~ #</font> '''rc-update add svscan default'''
and
<font color=red>hostname</font> <font color=blue>~ #</font> '''/etc/init.d/svscan start'''


== Configuration ==
== Configuration ==

Revision as of 23:05, 1 December 2006

From the authour's web-site: Nullmailer is a mail transport agent designed to only relay all its messages through a fixed set of "upstream" hosts. It is also designed to be secure.

Install Nullmailer

# emerge nullmailer -va

This may pull in supervise-scripts, which will then require:

hostname ~ # rc-update add svscan default

and

hostname ~ # /etc/init.d/svscan start

Configuration

Edit the following files to configure the machine to send mail to our mailing server (Bismarck).

/etc/nullmailer/adminaddr

admin@siat.sfu.ca

/etc/nullmailer/defaultdomain

iat.sfu.ca

/etc/nullmailer/me

$hostname.iat.sfu.ca

/etc/nullmailer/remotes

bismarck.iat.sfu.ca smtp

Status

hostname ~ # mailq

Testing

(note: you may have to emerge mailx to get the mail command)
Send a message to root, then wait a while for it to be picked up and sent onwards.

hostname ~ # mail -s "this is a nullmailer test from tirpitz" root
Type your message, complete it with a ctrl-D + Enter