Mailertable would be a good approach, no? Vijay Sankar ForeTell Technologies Limited vsan...@foretell.ca
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 17, 2014, at 12:13, Adam Thompson <athom...@athompso.net> wrote: > > I'm looking for recommendations on what works well for people, since this > doesn't appear to be covered by the FAQ or AOBSD2E. I know several ways to > accomplish what I'm after, but none of them seem to have any clear advantage > over the other. > > 1. I have about a dozen OpenBSD systems running (5.4-RELEASE), all of which > share a common list of users, all of which generate email automatically. > 2. Only one of those systems is the designated mail server. I would like all > the other systems to immediately relay any and all email to the mail server. > 3. I don't want to have to manually maintain /etc/mail/aliases on each and > every system for each and every user; sooner or later I'll miss one. > 4. I'd prefer to use smtpd(8) instead of sendmail(8), but I'm even willing to > run software from ports, if it's clearly better/cleaner/smaller/etc. > > So, I know I can achieve the effect I want by putting every user on every > machine in /etc/aliases with something like: > athompso athom...@central.mail.server > Or I can achieve the same effect by putting a .forward file in every home > directory on every machine, but both of these options are laborious and thus > error-prone. > > I know how to do this with Postfix, but installing Postfix from ports just to > forward mail to a central mailhost seems like... overkill? > I think I might be able to remember how to do this with Sendmail, but I'm not > sure. I've stayed as far away from sendmail as I can. > And I'm not at all clear on how to accomplish this with smtpd. > > I assume *someone* here must have a similar situation - what worked (or > didn't) for you? > > -- > -Adam Thompson > athom...@athompso.net
