RE: [CentOS] Lightweight MTA for XEN CentOS guests

2008-08-18 Thread Geoff Galitz



I like exim for this purpose.  I used to run a number of high performance
clusters and some of the nodes needed to send status information via e-mail.
Exim was just right for me.  It is also pretty easy to configure.

http://www.exim.org/

Geoff Galitz
Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland
http://www.galitz.org


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Subject: [CentOS] Lightweight MTA for XEN CentOS guests

All,

For a production environment, I'd like to setup CentOS XEN guests as
lightweight as possible.  I'd like the XEN guests to be able to send
nightly email as all CentOS servers do, but there is no reason to run
a mail server as the CentOS Dom0 already has an email server running
that can act as an email smart host.



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Re: [CentOS] Lightweight MTA for XEN CentOS guests

2008-08-18 Thread nate
Brett Serkez wrote:

 Does anyone on this list have experience running a minimal MTA?  What
 other options/software should I be looking at?  Any other insights,
 suggestions or insights?

I run postfix on all of my vmware VMs with this minimal config:

/etc/postfix/main.cf -
queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
command_directory = /usr/sbin
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
mail_owner = postfix
inet_interfaces = 127.0.0.1
recipient_delimiter = _
setgid_group = postdrop
relayhost = (my relay host)

If you wanted it smaller I just  tested it with this config and
it still works:
mail_owner = postfix
inet_interfaces = 127.0.0.1
setgid_group = postdrop
relayhost = (my relay host)

Could probably reduce it further..

I do re-route mail destined for accounts like root to a different
account on a remote system, which is configured in the aliases file.

nate



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Re: [CentOS] Lightweight MTA for XEN CentOS guests

2008-08-18 Thread Karanbir Singh

Brett Serkez wrote:

All,

For a production environment, I'd like to setup CentOS XEN guests as
lightweight as possible.  I'd like the XEN guests to be able to send
nightly email as all CentOS servers do, but there is no reason to run
a mail server as the CentOS Dom0 already has an email server running
that can act as an email smart host.


how about just have logwatch use a mua and have that use a remote smtp 
server ( mutt works well ).


- KB

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Re: [CentOS] Lightweight MTA for XEN CentOS guests

2008-08-18 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Karanbir Singh wrote:
 Brett Serkez wrote:
 For a production environment, I'd like to setup CentOS XEN guests as
 lightweight as possible.  I'd like the XEN guests to be able to send
 nightly email as all CentOS servers do, but there is no reason to run
 a mail server as the CentOS Dom0 already has an email server running
 that can act as an email smart host.

 how about just have logwatch use a mua and have that use a remote smtp  
 server ( mutt works well ).

Since when is the mutt in base compiled with esmtp support?

Ralph

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Re: [CentOS] Lightweight MTA for XEN CentOS guests

2008-08-18 Thread Karanbir Singh

Ralph Angenendt wrote:
how about just have logwatch use a mua and have that use a remote smtp  
server ( mutt works well ).


Since when is the mutt in base compiled with esmtp support?


must it be from base :D

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Re: [CentOS] Lightweight MTA for XEN CentOS guests

2008-08-18 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Karanbir Singh wrote:
 Ralph Angenendt wrote:
 how about just have logwatch use a mua and have that use a remote 
 smtp  server ( mutt works well ).

 Since when is the mutt in base compiled with esmtp support?

 must it be from base :D

Not necessarily :P

Ralph

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