Laugh. I use a bare-bones install of QMail on my main asterisk server. It of course emulates sendmail and the like.
But on my remote Asterisk server, I use ssmtp, it came as a prerequisite to Asterisk. When I emerged asterisk, ssmtp came with it. Works great. Configured it to use my main Asterisk server as the relay, my main asterisk server only relays from the remote asterisk servers, and all is well. I also have the remotes running ntpdate every 5 minutes to synchronize with ntpd running on the main asterisk server. This way the times are in sync. By the time I got into Mail clients and building mail servers, sendmail was already dying, and there was so much negativity about security, so I jumped straight to QMail. Almost gave up on it (in favor of Exim) but then discovered all the patches and enhancements people were continuing to make on QMail. Gentoo has a nice QMail install. Anyways, for maximum simplicity, I would recommend ssmtp. It works great, gets the job done. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Kohlsmith Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 7:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] SMTP MTA suggestions. On October 19, 2004 05:48 am, james wrote: > There are several replacements, but sendmail isn't any harder to config. > You usually only need to change 3 lines in the sendmail config. I suppose the reasons people are so anti-sendmail are several: 1. Security. Sendmail has a track record of being Unix's most insecure MTA. 2. Confusion. Sendmail's configuration is truly unweildy and unnecessarily complex. c.f. postfix for a configuration interface that doesn't suck. 3. Size. Why use a cannon swat a fly? Sendmail will do everything and then some, but this is unnecessary complexity and bloat for something as simple as a forwarding-only mail server, which is generally all people want if they already have a world-class SMTP server doing spam/virus checking and so forth. Sendmail is dead. Long live the alternatives. -A. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users