[Gllug] Postfix -> SMTP

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 04:30:37PM +0000, Mick wrote:
> Dear Tethys,
> 
> My MUA is set up to use /usr/sbin/sendmail.  As far as I can
> see, this uses SMTP to put the message in a place where
> Postfix can find it.  Postfix does this, and all its usual
> stuff, before using SMTP to send the message to my mail hub.
> 
> I'm trying to avoid this additional processing by getting
> the first sendmail to send the message directly to the mail
> hub.  This was the behaviour I had with RH 7.3 and old
> sendmail.

No, on your old system the sendmail binary was handing the mail to
whatever mail transport was installed.  If that MTA was configured to
relay everything through a hub, it did so.  You can get Postfix to
do the same.  You could install ssmtp, which is designed to do nothing
but relay through a hub for all non-local mail, but a) it's not as
intelligent about handling mail as a proper MTA would be and b) it isn't
supported/developed any more.

-- 
Bruce

I object to intellect without discipline.  I object to power without
constructive purpose. -- Spock
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