[Tfug] Local mail forwarding?

[Mike Morrell]

  It seems for you that running SSMTP would be best.  All it does is 
forward locally generated emails to an external account you specify.  It 
is really simple to setup and emulates the basics of sendmail without 
running a daemon.


Mike

Slack wrote:

>Would that allow me to receive all the Cron messages? Don't those get 
>addressed to root@<localdomain.com> or whichever user... Ok, I need more help 
>than I thought. :) Setting up Sendmail or Postfix to relay should be easy 
>enough (I at least get the concept), but what about setting the systems up so 
>that I can get mail from cron, etc... Stuff that would be delivered to a 
>local spool? Can ya tell mail is still pretty green territory for me? :) 
>Thanks for the help and patience. :)
>
>Allen
>
>On Sunday 11 July 2004 10:38, Jerry S. wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello Tucson,
>>
>>  Why not just set your mailserver to relay through cox's servers,
>>  they allow that.
>>
>>  jer
>>
>>Sunday, July 11, 2004, 10:28:19 AM, you wrote:
>>
>>S> Ok,
>>
>>S> I hope I can explain this right. :) What I'm looking to do is have all
>>my S> system mail (the mail generated by cron, mailx, etc) sent to my
>>external ISP S> account... The wonderful wingnuts at COX of course block
>>port 25, so setting S> up a nice full blown mail server is out of the
>>question, so I'm looking for S> ways around this.. I'd like to receive
>>notices in email for things like cron S> jobs on various boxes, maybe a
>>notification when one of my RAID drives S> faults, etc...
>>
>>S> Does that make sense? Can anyone help me put a solution together? I'm
>>really S> looking for even a top level theory based answer... I just need
>>someone to S> kick start my engine so to speak. :) Any help would be grand.
>>:)
>>
>>S> Thanks,
>>S> Allen
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