I ended up sticking with our tickets going to our main mail server, and having fetchmail grab them, deliver them to the local machine, and then setup sendmail to masquerade the outgoing. That way its not visible to the outside world, I dont have to manage another server, and if something happens to the mail server, I dont have to worry about my RT server.


On 10/25/2011 3:47 PM, Francisco Jen Ou wrote:
Yes, RT server needs its local SMTP (Postfix, Sendmail, Qmail).

If your existing Sendmail is used for no other purposes (like normal
user email), then you can just install and configure SMTP on RT server,
and configure NAT on your firewall so RT server SMTP is visible to world.

Em 25-10-2011 20:40, Wes Modes escreveu:
Thanks for the suggestion.

With this however, doesn't sendmail have to be running on the Rt Server
anyway to process all the incoming mail and execute RT scripts?

For simplicities sake, I'm leaning more and more toward all mail coming
into and going out from the RT server.  What are the disadvantages to
this approach?

Wes

On 10/25/2011 1:24 PM, Francisco Jen Ou wrote:
Hi,

My suggestion:

- incoming email to sendmail and aliased by it to something like
rt_queue_name@rt_server.domain.com (where rt_server.domain.com resolves
to RT server's internal net IP).

- outgoing email sent directly by RT server (don't forget to set
$SMTPFrom correctly)

This way, there will be only one server to manage (though you will need
to setup mailgate on RT server once).



Em 25-10-2011 16:59, Wes Modes escreveu:
I'm pretty sure this has been hashed and rehashed on this list, but a
google search this morning turned up nothing definitive, so I will ask:

I am reconfiguring a twisted RT installation (3.6, but moving toward
4.0).  We already have a mail server (sendmail) running on another server.

For incoming and outgoing email I thought of three differrent options:

   * *OPTION A: Re-addressed*
     Incoming mail comes into the mail server and is readdressed to RT
     server and forwarded
     Outgoing mail coming from the RT server goes to the mail server and
     is readdressed before going out to the world
     Pro: one mail server to admin;  Con: pain to set up,
   * *OPTION B: Redirect*
     Incoming mail comes into the mail server and is redirected to the RT
     server
     Outgoing mail coming from the RT server goes to the mail server and
     is redirected to the rest of the world
     Pro: one mail server, simpler to set up; Con: less of a setup pain,
     but still
   * *OPTION C: Direct*
     Incoming mail goes straight to the RT server
     Outgoing mail coming from the RT server goes out to the world directly
     Pro: Simple to set up;  Con: two mail servers to deal with

What is the best practice (or failing that, Most Common Practice) among
RT administrators?

Wes Modes
University of California,
Santa Cruz


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