On 20100118_133220, Adam Hardy wrote: > This is possibly an exceptionally easy question to answer because I > feel like all the documentation I've read about sending mail and > postfix starts at step 2, and step 1 is just common knowledge that I > somehow failed to pick up. > > I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to > send all its mail for root to my email address, and that's all. I > don't want it to receive any email or relay or anything else. > > I set this up a few years back with postfix and now trying to > recreate this setup, I am running into the problem that the mail > command isn't installed. It obviously doesn't come with postfix and > there appears to be a huge choice of packages that I could choose > from in the debian repositories, but isn't there a default? My guess > is that my hosting service installed such a stripped-down version of > lenny that I didn't get it. > > Any enlightenment gratefully received, > > Adam
Lenny netinstall puts exim4 on the computer as part of the base system. Why are you trying to get postfix working? You should have exim4 from your first boot of Lenny. Did you try exim4 and find it wanting? Reason? Configuring exim4 to send local mail to an external 'smarthost' is a bit of a trick, especially if the smarthost demands password authentication. And even that is explained in some detail in the exim4 package docs. Are you sure you *don't* have exim4 installed, but unconfigured? -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
