On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 18:42:57 +0200 Wim <factotum_m...@web.de> wrote: > Hi Bonno, > > On Sunday, 14 April at 08:00, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > > > > All along I just installed the standard system on a Debian machine. Created > > an alias for the root user with the email address of our servicedesk to > > have it send any mails to my servicedesk account and that was it. > > The last Debian installations no longer have a default mailserver installed > > and frankly, I do not need a full blown mailserver but.... I do want mails > > generated on the local machine forwarded to our on-site smart relay server. > > I could install all of Exim again and do the standard dpkg-reconfigure > > exim4-config I did before where I tell it where the smarthost is, but.... > > is there a "better" way that does not need the full Exim package? > > I am looking for an "easy light weight just empty the local queue and send > > it to the smart host" setup. > > I don't mind experimenting and it doesn not need to be Exim but the info I > > get Googling is just too diverse and does not get me much closer to what I > > want. :-( > > Who can help me and point me to some relevant info? > > > > The program 'msmtp' might be what you're looking for. It's an easy to > use smtp client. The Arch Linux wiki has some good info on 'mstmp'.
I've had trouble with a bunch of the simple SMTP agents that I tried, so I finally gave up and configured Postfix. With msmtp, we're currently trying to figure out whether it sends malformed email only in artificial situations, or in real world cases as well ;/ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=917260 Celejar
