On 27 Jan 2009, at 02:41, MountainX wrote:
MacShane, Tracy wrote:
...
Personally, I wonder why you're using Postfix at all if you're just
sending and receiving mail via Gmail. Postfix is a full-blown MTA,
so it
seems like a lot of overkill for mail you could collect via IMAP/
POP using
the mail client of your preference.
Well, now that Postfix is almost working the way I want, it would
require
more time to switch to something else. But you have aroused my
curiosity.
What is a simple solution that will allow my Linux server to send all
notifications (such as those generated by system events or otherwise
and
addressed to root @localhost or any other user account) to me at my
gmail
account without using Postfix?
ssmtp is usually the recommended solution, although I don't know if it
accommodates whatever authentication / ssl is required by Gmail.
* mail-mta/ssmtp
Available versions: *2.61-r2 [M]~2.61-r30 [M]~2.61-r31
Homepage: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/
ssmtp/
Description: Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the
system to a Mailhub
Stroller.
