My small network consists of a mail server(postfix) and 2 clients.
I want to configure the clients so that all the mail they send is sent through the mailserver. I want to forward all outgoing mail to the mail server.
How should I configure the clients to achieve this?
High-level stuff only from me on this sorry - I'm not good with postfix at all.
You want the mail server to be configured as the smarthost and the clients set up to use this mail server as their smarthost.
From memory, you need to put the following config entry into your client postfix config:
I'd suggest making a DNS alias for this (Solaris will automatically use mailhost.localdomain if it exists so I use that name) so if you ever move mailservers, you don't need to update all (I know there's only 2 but if you ever grow...) your clients.
Hi,
I would like to set up an E-mail forwarding service like Netaddress whereby users would be able to create an E-mail account in my domain name and have all the mail sent to that account forwarded to an alternate address they specify.
I know that I can redirect mail sent to my domain using... (1 Reply)
I have a simple question.
i have an e-mail account with an ISP on a Solaris box. I want to forward all the mail that comes to "only" me to another POP3 account. I used to have the commands written down on how to forward all but I have lost them. Is there a way to forward only e-mails that... (2 Replies)
quick question.
I have a webserver that has various scripts for user registration and ect on it. I want to post (mail) these to myself - however I am a bit stuck on how to configure sendmail to do this.
The hosting partner that I use has provided me with the use of their relay to send on the... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I need to forward mail wich are in some users mailbox. The .forward redirection is working for all new mails but not for old. Is someone know how to do this ?
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi Everyone,
I am an intermediate to Unix.I want to forward the incoming messages for my Unix Account 'pdileep' to another mail account 'pdileep@ncmail.com'.
I tried out .forward option,but the forwarded message was not there in my Unix Account.
My requirement is like,i want to forward... (6 Replies)
Hello everybody,
I have solaris 10 running on SF v890, I need to forward some sepecific root mails resulted from some application, (or all root mails) to other machine running Solaris 10 also.
does it have anything to do with mail relay, or just change the log settings???
Thanks in Advance... (1 Reply)
Greetings to all of you. I am a tad desperate here. I have found MANY articles scattered across the internet from google searches and unix.com searches for how to forward mail that say:
Create a ~/.forward file and put XXXX in it.
This is not what I need to do.
We have bunch of users... (1 Reply)
Hello everyone,
I am trying to create a forwarding scenario, and I do not seem to get it right!
I created a .forward file in the directory where my personal mailbox resides. In the file is the full address to deliver email to ... yet the emails do not seem to get forwarded.
Is there something... (3 Replies)
I am asking about my work account, running Linux on a system server. On pine, I set up a forward to another email account. I also keep a copy in the original account. The forward has been running fine for some time.
I believe the system sends the mail first to the forwarded account and then puts... (0 Replies)
hello All,
I am not heavily conversant with *nix, so few of you may find the question to be naive.
Question : Will *nix Kernel process packets not originating from a loopback interface, but received on a loopback interface?
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I have an application running which can strip packets... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
mailer.conf
MAILER.CONF(5) BSD File Formats Manual MAILER.CONF(5)NAME
mailer.conf -- configuration file for mailwrapper(8)DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/mail/mailer.conf contains a series of lines of the form
name program [arguments ...]
The first word of each line is the name of a program invoking mailwrapper(8). (For example, on a typical system /usr/sbin/sendmail would be
a symbolic link to mailwrapper(8), as would newaliases(1) and mailq(1). Thus, name might be ``sendmail'' or ``newaliases'' etc.)
The second word of each line is the name of the program to actually execute when the first name is invoked.
The further arguments, if any, are passed to the program, followed by the arguments mailwrapper(8) was called with.
The file may also contain comment lines, denoted by a '#' mark in the first column of any line.
FILES
/etc/mail/mailer.conf
EXAMPLES
This example shows how to set up mailer.conf to invoke the traditional sendmail(8) program:
# Execute the "real" sendmail program located in
# /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
sendmail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
send-mail /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
mailq /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
newaliases /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike like Postfix in place of sendmail(8):
# Emulate sendmail using postfix
sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
This example shows how to invoke a sendmail-workalike with Exim (from ports) in place of sendmail(8):
# Emulate sendmail using exim
sendmail /usr/local/sbin/exim
send-mail /usr/local/sbin/exim
mailq /usr/local/sbin/exim -bp
newaliases /usr/bin/true
rmail /usr/local/sbin/exim -i -oee
This example shows the use of the mini_sendmail package from ports in place of sendmail(8). Note the use of additional arguments.
# Send outgoing mail to a smart relay using mini_sendmail
sendmail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost
send-mail /usr/local/bin/mini_sendmail -srelayhost
SEE ALSO mail(1), mailq(1), newaliases(1), mailwrapper(8), sendmail(8)postfix(1) (ports/mail/postfix), mini_sendmail(8) (ports/mail/mini_sendmail)
HISTORY
mailer.conf appeared in NetBSD 1.4.
AUTHORS
Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
BUGS
The entire reason this program exists is a crock. Instead, a command for how to submit mail should be standardized, and all the "behave dif-
ferently if invoked with a different name" behavior of things like mailq(1) should go away.
BSD October 8, 2010 BSD