Re: MTA for firewalls, etc. ?
Christian Schwarz wrote:
> I'd like to have a very simple
> MTA which will deliver all mails locally (i.e., directly to
> /var/spool/mail) without any `.forwards' files, etc. The MTA should not
> accept connections from outside and should never send any mails to other
> hosts.
Well this is really not what you asked for, but debian's simplest MTA is in
the ssmtp package:
Description: Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a Mailhub
A secure, effective and simple way of getting mail off a system to your
mailhost. No suid-binaries or other dangerous things. No mail spool to poke
around in. No daemons running in the background. Mail is simply forwarded to
the configured mailhost. Extremely easy configuration.
.
WARNING: the above is all it does. It does not receive mail, expand
aliases or manage a queue. That belongs on a mailhub with a system
administrator.
This seems to make more sense for a firewall machine anyway, you'd want to
receive mail if something went wrong, rather than have it languish in
/var/spool/mail on the firewall.
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