On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 12:09:06PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > Chris Green: > > I run postfix on my main desktop machine both for sending mail (via my > > hosting provider 'smarthost') and for receiving mail. > > > > I want to use postfix to provide /usr/bin/sendmail on a laptop and > > some other machines. These machines won't be receiving E-Mail. > > > > I've considered the 'send only' programs such as esmtp and msmtp but > > having to maintain *different* configurations is a downside with these > > and I'm already (fairly) familiar with postfix. > > > > So, is there an easy way to copy my existing postfix configuration > > (in /etc/postfix) to other machines? What actually needs to be > > different on each machine for it to work? Does *anything* need to be > > different? > > Non-MTA machines can have identical configuration. You need a > relayhost: > > # [] to disable MX record lookups > relayhost = [smtp.example.com] > > And presumably, SASL configuration: > > smtp_sasl_password_maps = map with plaintext passwords > smtp_tls_security_level = may > smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes > smtp_sasl_tls_security_options = noanonymous > > And this will almost never need to be updated. > Excellent, thank you Wietse, I think you have set me on my way.
-- Chris Green
