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Christoph Höger choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de
Tue Oct 13 07:08:26 UTC 2009


Am Montag, den 12.10.2009, 10:23 -0700 schrieb Konstantin Svist:
> On 10/12/2009 03:35 AM, Markku Kolkka wrote:
> > Konstantin Svist kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai,
> > 12. lokakuuta 2009):
> >>
> >> I don't want the localhost mail to go out through a real smtp
> >> server, and I'm not too keen on running a huge mailing package
> >> like sendmail or postfix on my laptop. What are my options?
> >
> > Use esmtp, it handles local mail delivery in addition to sending
> > mail to upstream servers. It's available in Fedora, "yum install
> > esmtp". For documentation see:
> > http://esmtp.sourceforge.net/doc.html
> >
> 
> Thanks, I think that works.
> 
> Here's what I did:
> 
> * install esmtp-local-delivery (it installs procmail)
> * edit /etc/esmtprc to include this line:
> mda "procmail -d <user>"
> (where <user> is my underprivileged username)
> 
> Esmtp does't use aliases, but by lucky coincidence the user is specified 
> right there in the procmail command line :)

Nice to here this, but how do you sendmail to a real mta outside your
box then (aka: How does esmtp decide to route without aliases)?
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