[olug] Clear-Text Proxies

[Mike Peterson]

So are you running two mail servers on the same box or two mail servers on
the same network on different boxes?
Sendmail is an SMTP server.
Why would it not count as an SMUT server?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Hostetler" <hostetlerm at gmail.com>
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>; <payne at mattpayne.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] Clear-Text Proxies


> On Wed, 26 May 2004 11:40:37 -0500, David Walker <olug at grax.com> wrote:
> >
> > Why not just set up an SMTP server on the Linux box on a non-standard
port?
> > Then each machine can automagically send mail directly to that port on
the
> > Linux machine.
>
> I took Dave's suggestion and installed postfix on the Linux box and am
> having it listen to port 5000.  I had to put 5000 in /etc/services as
> "smtp2" and tell postfix to listen to smtp2 instead of smtp via
> master.cf.  Then I set postfix up to just relay to the main mailserver
> (if I tried to relay to the already-running sendmail listening on port
> 25, postfix complained about looping).
>
> This seems like overkill, since I already had one smtp server running
> (if sendmail counts -- it doesn't usually in my book ;)  But it works
> -- thanks for all the advice.  And I learned a little about netcat,
> which is a good thing.
>
> -- mikeh
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