Re: Using Postfix to send home server alerts

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 09:23:18PM +, Chris Green wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 01:53:37PM -0500, Ian Evans wrote: > > > [2]https://marlam.de/msmtp/ > > > > > I'm not totally convinced that any of the simple/null mailers does > > the > > job either easily or well. I

Re: Using Postfix to send home server alerts

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 01:53:37PM -0500, Ian Evans wrote: > > [2]https://marlam.de/msmtp/ > > > I'm not totally convinced that any of the simple/null mailers does > the > job either easily or well. I have a Beaglebone Black SBC on a small > boat in France and it reco

Re: Using Postfix to send home server alerts

In an earlier note, Bob Proulx said "The best solution for you is the one you understand the best. That is the one you can manage the easiest.” For me, for historical reasons, that has been Postfix. For several years, I ran a full-fledged Postfix server on a Macintosh running at home. Static I

Re: Using Postfix to send home server alerts

Ian Evans wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The best solution for you is the one you understand the best. That is > > the one you can manage the easiest. > > > > Sorry if one question begets quite a few more. But that is the nature > > of these things! :-) > > Egads. 😊 Sorry! :-) > You're right.

Re: Using Postfix to send home server alerts

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020, 1:55 PM Bob Proulx, wrote: > Ian Evans wrote: > > Just looking for a pointer to a recommended tutorial on setting up > Postfix > > as a send only service to be able to send alert emails from a home server > > like smartmontools drive warnings etc. > > The problem won't be fi

Re: Using Postfix to send home server alerts

Ian Evans wrote: > Just looking for a pointer to a recommended tutorial on setting up Postfix > as a send only service to be able to send alert emails from a home server > like smartmontools drive warnings etc. The problem won't be finding one. The problem will be finding less than several dozen.

Re: Using Postfix to send home server alerts

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020, 11:09 AM Chris Green, wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 07:59:21PM +1300, Peter wrote: > > On 15/02/20 10:31 am, Ian Evans wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Just looking for a pointer to a recommended tutorial on setting up > > > Postfix as a send only service to be able to send a

Re: Using Postfix to send home server alerts

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 07:59:21PM +1300, Peter wrote: > On 15/02/20 10:31 am, Ian Evans wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just looking for a pointer to a recommended tutorial on setting up > > Postfix as a send only service to be able to send alert emails from a > > home server like smartmontools drive warn

Re: Using Postfix to send home server alerts

On 15/02/20 10:31 am, Ian Evans wrote: Hi, Just looking for a pointer to a recommended tutorial on setting up Postfix as a send only service to be able to send alert emails from a home server like smartmontools drive warnings etc. If this makes it easier, I do have a fully functional Postfix

Re: Using Postfix to send home server alerts

On 2020-02-14 Ian Evans wrote: > Just looking for a pointer to a recommended tutorial on setting up > Postfix as a send only service to be able to send alert emails from a > home server like smartmontools drive warnings etc. What you're looking for is called a "null client."

Using Postfix to send home server alerts

Hi, Just looking for a pointer to a recommended tutorial on setting up Postfix as a send only service to be able to send alert emails from a home server like smartmontools drive warnings etc. I have seen several tutorials that touch on this, but the part I'm not clear on is the FQDN setting. It's