mail server config

mail server config

[Chris Jensen]

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?
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?

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Re: mail server config

[Chris Jensen]

Can anyone help me with this? I'd really like to setup notifications for my 
gnats install. But the documentation gives me next to nothing, it assumes a 
sendmail install - which I don't have. If I do a "standard" sendmail install 
(not knowing sendmail I don't even know if there is such a thing) and 
configure the aliases in the document will that give me mail notifications?
I'd really appreciate some help on this

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:12 am, 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? 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?

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Re: mail server config

[Chris Jensen]

Can anyone help me with this? I'd really like to setup notifications for my 
gnats install. But the documentation gives me next to nothing, it assumes a 
sendmail install - which I don't have. If I do a "standard" sendmail install 
(not knowing sendmail I don't even know if there is such a thing) and 
configure the aliases in the document will that give me mail notifications?
I'd really appreciate some help on this

On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:12 am, 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? 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?

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Re: mail server config

[Mariusz Pekala]

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Since no one else dared to answer your problem, I will try. :-)

First - what system do you have? Kind of Linux?
You are using KMail, so I suppose it is some Unix-like system.
In that case I am almost sure that you should have some flavour of sendmail 
installed. Maybe with another name?

As to the question how gnats sends out mails: as far as I know it calls that 
'sendmail' program and lets it dispatch the message.

I am not sure whether gnats is able to send mail in some other way, but as 
soon as I get back home, I will dig into the problem...

- --Mariusz

Chris Jensen (pią 25. lipiec 2003 00:00):
> Can anyone help me with this? I'd really like to setup notifications for my
> gnats install. But the documentation gives me next to nothing, it assumes a
> sendmail install - which I don't have. If I do a "standard" sendmail
> install (not knowing sendmail I don't even know if there is such a thing)
> and configure the aliases in the document will that give me mail
> notifications? I'd really appreciate some help on this
>
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:12 am, 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? 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?


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Re: mail server config

[Hans-Albert Schneider]

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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