Hot to configure simple mail forwarder?

Per olof Ljungmark peo at intersonic.se
Mon May 21 17:20:35 UTC 2007


Maxim Khitrov wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have what I hope is a rather simple question. I'm not very familiar
> with this area of system administration, so hopefully someone here can
> point me in the right direction. I just got myself a FreeBSD VPS to
> host a few of my websites. I need the processes on the server (PHP,
> for example) to be able to send e-mail via /usr/sbin/sendmail. The
> thing is that I don't actually want to run a mail server. My vps is
> severely limited on disk space, and any mail I get I'll forward to my
> gmail account anyway. I can obviously configure sendmail or postfix to
> do this for me, but this seems a bit excessive for what I'm trying to
> do. The mail load will be very light, and I'd prefer to conserve disk
> space. Is there a port, perhaps, that will simply forward all mail
> transmitted to /usr/sbin/sendmail to the destination SMTP server? The
> only other thing it has to be able to do is use the aliases file to
> determine the real e-mail of root, for example.
> 
> Like I said, I'm not too familiar with setting up mail servers, so if
> this makes no sense to you please suggest an alternative. Just to
> recap, I don't need local mail storage and I don't need the server to
> accept mail from anything other than the local processes running on
> the server. Just need it to read the destination e-mail address (or
> get it via aliases), connect to the MX server for that domain, and
> transmit the message. If there isn't any simple daemon that will do
> this, can you recommend either how to configure sendmail or something
> like postfix to do this? The idea is to minimize resource usage (disk
> space, memory, cpu time).

Sounds to me you just have to enter the proper aliases (in 
/etc/mail/aliases), run "newaliases", and you're done, i.e. point 
everything to your own e-mail address?


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