Re: Sendmail to send mail only, using MX records
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:55:44PM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote:
> On 6/21/09, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> > Kelly Jones wrote:
> >> I have sendmail installed on etch,
> >
> > Is there a reason not to upgrade to Lenny, the current stable? This
> > is outside of your current problem but you really should think about
> > keeping current.
>
> I plan to use a cluster of cheap VPS' for redundancy. Many VPS
> providers now offer etch; very few offer lenny.
>
> > Using Sendmail is probably okay but IMNHO there are better choices.
> > Would you entertain using a different MTA? If you want a full
> > internet site mailer then I recommend that you install and use either
> > Postfix or Exim. I personally prefer Postfix. But in either case you
> > could simply install and it would solve your problem.
> >
> > apt-get install postfix
> >
> > Answer the debconf questions for an internet site and then you are
> > set. No other configuration is needed.
>
> I'm happy to use any MTA that 1) delivers email to anydomain.com using
> its MX record, 2) queues mail that it can't send, and 3) doesn't run a
> daemon (I don't accept incoming email on these servers).
>
> I had exim4 installed, but it kept telling me "not configured to send
> mail to remote hosts" or something.
>
> Postfix will really just work "out of the box"?
Both Exim and Postfix have a simple debconf-based configurator .
dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
#dpkg-reconfigure postfix
I personally prefer postfix. But Exim is also well-supported here.
> debian:~# dpkg -S /usr/sbin/sendmail
> dpkg: /usr/sbin/sendmail not found.
> debian:~# ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2009-06-19 16:17 /usr/lib/sendmail -> /etc/alternativ\
> es/lib.sendmail*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2009-06-19 16:17 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /etc/alternati\
> ves/sendmail*
>
> Hmmm, what the heck am I running?
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display sendmail
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