From: Hans-Albert Schneider <Hans-Albert@HA-Schneider.de>
To: Chris Jensen <chris-gnats@drspirograph.com>, help-gnats@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mail server config
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307241914.12057.Hans-Albert@HA-Schneider.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307212112.25977.chris-gnats@drspirograph.com>
On Monday 21 July 2003 13:12, Chris Jensen wrote:
> Hi,
> Sorry if this is a stupid one. There seems to be very little in the
> way of mail configuration options. How does gnats send out it's
> notification emails?
In 3.113.1, there is a compile-time option "MAIL_AGENT", defaulting to
"/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t".
This gets the complete mail, including header lines (like "From:",
"To:", "Subject:"), on its standard input.
In Gnats 3.999.x, this is done essentially the same way, but has been
wrapped in a script called "mail-agent" so that the compile-time
option is gone.
> Do I need mail software installed on the same
> machine as the gnats server, or can I get it to route through
> another smtp server located on the network? If I have to install
> software locally, what specific software is required?
I think the easiest way is to install a rudimentary mail-server
locally. If you choose sendmail, there is a "null client"
configuration that forwards all mails to another SMTP server.
Postfix can be configured similarly, see
http://www.postfix.org/faq.html#null_client
For other software, check the docs.
Hope this helps,
Hans-Albert
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EMail: Hans-Albert@HA-Schneider.de
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-21 11:29 Chris Jensen
2003-07-24 11:54 ` Chris Jensen
2003-07-24 15:23 ` Chris Jensen
2003-07-24 17:18 ` Mariusz Pekala
2003-07-29 21:47 ` Hans-Albert Schneider [this message]
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