On Friday 25 May 2007, zephod@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > So do I need to look at configuring sendmail? From what I've read on > this list, that's not the easiest thing to do. > Postfix.sendmail is easier to configure, though I've never done it for use with a company network. Of course that means installing and configuring postfix, but the config files are helpfully commented. Basically you have to write a transport map file that tells it what to do with local traffic and what to do with external messages. On a home LAN it would look something like lydgate.net smtp:[borg.lydgate.lan] .lydgate.net smtp:[borg.lydgate.lan] * smtp:[smtp.mailbox.co.uk] That is, send local mail to the smtp server on the server box. Send everything else to my ISP's smtp server. When you've discovered the names you need to put in there, you run 'postmap transport', and you're away. Finally you have to tell the system to use postfix.sendmail instead of sendmail. There's a small utility that helps here. I can't remember exactly, but it's something like mail-agent-switcher. I'm sure someone will give you the correct name. Anne
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