On 20100118_133220, Adam Hardy wrote:
This is possibly an exceptionally easy question to answer because I
feel like all the documentation I've read about sending mail and
postfix starts at step 2, and step 1 is just common knowledge that I
somehow failed to pick up.
I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to
send all its mail for root to my email address, and that's all. I
don't want it to receive any email or relay or anything else.
I set this up a few years back with postfix and now trying to
recreate this setup, I am running into the problem that the mail
command isn't installed. It obviously doesn't come with postfix and
there appears to be a huge choice of packages that I could choose
from in the debian repositories, but isn't there a default? My guess
is that my hosting service installed such a stripped-down version of
lenny that I didn't get it.
Any enlightenment gratefully received,
Adam
Lenny netinstall puts exim4 on the computer as part of the base
system. Why are you trying to get postfix working? You should have
exim4 from your first boot of Lenny. Did you try exim4 and find it
wanting? Reason?
Configuring exim4 to send local mail to an external 'smarthost' is a
bit of a trick, especially if the smarthost demands password
authentication. And even that is explained in some detail in the exim4
package docs. Are you sure you *don't* have exim4 installed, but
unconfigured?