Hot to configure simple mail forwarder?

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Mon May 21 18:12:01 UTC 2007


On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:52:34PM -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
>  On 5/21/07, Per olof Ljungmark <peo at intersonic.se> wrote:
> > 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?

Maybe /usr/ports/mail/ssmtp or /usr/ports/mail/msmtp will do the trick?

Roland
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