> On 23 September 2020, at 22:32, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > > John Stoffel wrote: >> Bob> What's the best configuration for a web server that does not >> Bob> receive mail but needs to send mail? Password resets. Bug >> Bob> ticket update notifications. That type of email. >> >> I would push all the email to the mailserver for the domain served by >> that web server and let it deal with this issue. Make the client (web >> server) only send emails through the mail gateway which is setup >> properly. > > Sigh. I was hoping to be able to avoid this. But both of the > responses were basically, set up something to handle incoming mail. > >> No need to replicate the pain again and again for individual servers. > > But your answer assumes there is already an incoming email system set > up for that domain somewhere. But since that isn't always true it > means that one would always need to be set up for it. And if there is > only one single server for the project then that is the server it will > land on. My preference would be not to do it at all.
Check and see if DMA, Dragonfly mail agent, is available for your machine. It is a very simple send only mail server. It is easy to setup and run. Only sends mail. Nothing else other than DNS resolution is required. -- Doug
