Johan:
Actually, since the system I'm building is meant to be very secure
and appliance-like, it doesn't ever need to get mail "out of the
system." And it has limited memory, so it shouldn't be running a
mail daemon. At most, it needs a mail system that can ONLY mail
locally, solely for the purpose of satisfying programs that want to
send users status via mail. (The mail files will be trimmed by
newsyslog, so they can't consume infinite space.) Even the
Dragonfly mail daemon would be overkill.
I've tried putting mail.local(8) in as the "sendmail" program in
mailer.conf, but it turns out that there are problems with command
line options. Not only doesn't mail.local(8) understand all of the
fancy options that Sendmail accepts; it doesn't even understand
some of the simpler ones that are emitted by mail(8)! For example,
mail(8) uses the -i option when invoking sendmail, to keep it from
treating lines with just a dot as an end of file marker.
mail.local(8) doesn't even have that "feature;" it always waits for
EOF. So, it doesn't have that command line option and balks if you include it.
I'm thinking that a simple wrapper around mail.local(8) that
processed the command line options (Has anyone written one? I find
it hard to believe that no one has) would allow mail.local to serve
as a local mailer and bypass sendmail(8). If someone handed it an
address with an "@" (or, for that matter, anything else that wasn't
the name of a local user), mail.local(8) would just reject it.
--Brett Glass
At 02:35 PM 9/4/2011, Johan Hendriks wrote:
Maybe ssmtp is something you can use.
It is in ports, it does get mail out of the system.
I use it on all of my servers so i can receive the cron mails and so on.
Personaly i think sendmail should be replaced by such small mailer.
Also Dragonfly has removed Sendmail for there own small and clean
mailer called DMA.
DMA - DragonFly Mail Agent
Gr
Johan Hendriks
Double L
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