So does it require the Perl Mail scripts to be installed, or will just an
MTA like exim4 work?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Graeme Fowler" <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [lvs-users] Configuring email alerts on Debian
> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 17:18 -0500, bhilkert@xxxxxx wrote:
>> Which is the most lightweight solution? We have an SMTP server on the
>> local
>> network to go through, so I wouldn't want this box going straight out to
>> the
>> internet to send mail. Is there someway to just configure the SMTP to
>> send it
>> off to?
>
> This is not really an LVS question, more of a general "how do I get mail
> out of this box?"
>
> Run an MTA daemon (of your choice) bound only to localhost on the
> director, and configure that to smarthost all mail it receives out via
> your local SMTP server for distribution. This way, ldirectord will
> deliver to the local host, and if it cannot reach the smart host it will
> queue the mail until it can.
>
> Make sure your MTA daemon runs the queue at regular intervals, either
> via queue runners called from the daemon or from cron.
>
> Graeme
>
>
>
>
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