RE: [Asterisk-Users] SMTP MTA suggestions.
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
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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] SMTP MTA suggestions.
On October 18, 2004 09:11 pm, Fabian Garcia wrote: > I understand asterisk invokes sendmail in order to send email notifications > of messages left. Is there another application less complicated than > Sendmail, I already got mail servers else where and they are the ones I > want to use. Nullmailer; why put a full blown MTA on your voice box -- nullmailer has its own queue and hands off everything to your favourite SMTP machine instead of trying to deliver to all the endpoints itself. This keeps your mail system centralized and the control in one place, which is far easier to maintain that a full-blown MTA for ever server you have. If you insist on a full MTA, Postfix gets my vote; it's every bit as secure as qmail (I have been using qmail for close to a decade now) but without the billion patches required to give qmail any kind of modern functionality. -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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] SMTP MTA suggestions.
I usually use Qmail www.qmail.org, in my humble opinion it is more straight forward to configure than sendmail. On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 21:11, Fabian Garcia wrote: > > > I understand asterisk invokes sendmail in order to send email > notifications of messages left. Is there another application less > complicated than Sendmail, I already got mail servers else where and > they are the ones I want to use. > > > > Any light in this matter will be appreciated. There are several replacements, but sendmail isn't any harder to config. You usually only need to change 3 lines in the sendmail config. * DISCLAIMER * This message and any attachment are confidential and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure and may include proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please telephone or email the sender and delete this message and any attachment from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy this message or attachment or disclose the contents to any other person ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] SMTP MTA suggestions.
On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 21:11, Fabian Garcia wrote: > > > I understand asterisk invokes sendmail in order to send email > notifications of messages left. Is there another application less > complicated than Sendmail, I already got mail servers else where and > they are the ones I want to use. > > > > Any light in this matter will be appreciated. There are several replacements, but sendmail isn't any harder to config. You usually only need to change 3 lines in the sendmail config. ___ 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
RE: [Asterisk-Users] SMTP MTA suggestions.
Fabian Garcia wrote: > I understand asterisk invokes sendmail in order to send email > notifications of messages left. Is there another application less > complicated than Sendmail, I already got mail servers else where > and they are the ones I want to use. All major MTAs emulate the sendmail interface. So you can probably use your favourite MTA i.s.o. sendmail. -- Andreas SikkemaRits tele.com Scheepmakersstraat 11 3011 VH Rotterdam t: +31 (0)10 2245544f: +31 (0)10 2245540 ___ 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
Re: [Asterisk-Users] SMTP MTA suggestions.
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:11:11 -0400, Fabian Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand asterisk invokes sendmail in order to send email notifications > of messages left. Is there another application less complicated than > Sendmail, I already got mail servers else where and they are the ones I want > to use. There's a small program called ssmtp: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/ssmtp that basically acts as a sendmail-compatible program that sends mail it is given by connecting to an external SMTP server. It is about as bare bones as an MTA as you can get, and I'm surprised that it doesn't see wider use than Debian and Gentoo (in particular it doesn't seem to be present by default in Red Hat or Fedora). ___ 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