[Tfug] Local mail forwarding?

[Slack]

Oh my god... Take away all my stripes! hahah Looks like I just neglected to 
"configure" ssmtp... I always thought it sounded like something that should 
work for me, but somehow I didn't figure it had a config file... I'm... 
So.... Ashamed.... :(

Thanks for the kick in the pants! :)

Allen

On Sunday 11 July 2004 12:04, Mike Morrell wrote:
>   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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