On 2018-01-19, Ralph Seichter <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 19.01.18 19:45, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Let's not worry about how the command-line MTA works. It has the same
>> usage as /usr/bin/sendmail and it works. What I am asking for is an
>> SMTP relay server that will relay incoming my by invoking it.
>
> "Relaying" implies passing mail to another server via network.

Yes, that's what the command-line MTA utility does.

> Also, I have no idea why you would not want Postfix to do its job,

Becuase postfix doesn't implement the protocols used by that
command-line utility to transfer the mail to another server via the
network.

> but anyway: Postfix can pass incoming mail to a binary during local
> delivery.

And it will do 'local delivery' for any and all recipient addresses?
There are no local email users.

> You can for example set up an alias
> (http://www.postfix.org/aliases.5.html):

But that says it's for local recipients.  There are no local
recipients.

>   # /etc/aliases
>   mybinary: |/path/to/binary

And that binary will be passed command-line options and arguments
compatible with /usr/bin/sendmail?

> Make sure to configure 'alias_database' accordingly. Sending mail to
> [email protected] should then be enough to invoke the binary
> (with default values for 'mydestination').

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