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(note: you may have to '''emerge mailx''' to get the '''mail''' command) | (note: you may have to '''emerge mailx''' to get the '''mail''' command) | ||
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Send a message to root, then wait a | Send a message to root, then wait a brief moment for it to be picked up and sent onwards. | ||
<font color=red>hostname</font> <font color=blue>~ #</font> '''mail -s "this is a nullmailer test | <font color=red>hostname</font> <font color=blue>~ #</font> '''mail -s "this is a nullmailer test" root''' | ||
Type your message, complete it with a '''ctrl-D + Enter''' | Type your message, complete it with a '''ctrl-D + Enter''' | ||
If everything is going properly, the adminaddr should receive a shiny new message in a short period of time! | |||
Revision as of 23:12, 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 hostname ~ # ln -fs /var/nullmailer/service /service/nullmailer
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 brief moment for it to be picked up and sent onwards.
hostname ~ # mail -s "this is a nullmailer test" root Type your message, complete it with a ctrl-D + Enter
If everything is going properly, the adminaddr should receive a shiny new message in a short period of time!