Forwarding mail to another server

[Pat Maddox]

Awesome, that worked great, thanks.


On 8/26/05, Björn König <bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Pat Maddox wrote:
> > My ISP (Bresnan) blocks outgoing traffic on port 25.  I'd like to make
> > it so that the mail program automatically forwards requests to my
> > ISP's mail server, instead of trying to directly send mail to the
> > appropriate server.
> >
> > For example, if I did
> > mail pergesu at gmail.com
> >
> > And sent a message, my machine would send that to mail.bresnan.net and
> > have them pass it on.  Is it possible to do that?  If so, how?
> 
> I use the port mail/ssmtp for this purpose. This is a small program that
> sends all mails via a relay server. After you have installed it you will
> find some example configuration files in /usr/local/etc/ssmtp. Alter
> also the entries in /etc/mail/mailer.conf to
> 
> sendmail        /usr/local/sbin/ssmtp
> send-mail       /usr/local/sbin/ssmtp
> mailq           /usr/local/sbin/ssmtp
> newaliases      /usr/local/sbin/ssmtp
> hoststat        /usr/bin/true
> purgestat       /usr/bin/true
> 
> 
> Regards Björn
>