[NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail Help

[Chris Cox]

Stephen Davidson wrote:
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> 
> Ok, so I guess I have to shut down the local instance of sendmail to get 
> this working.  Ok for home system, but what about intermittenly 
> connecting laptop?

Yes... you don't need a local smtp... you're forwarding via ssh
tunnel to an smtp somewhere else... of course, you could run
both.. just adjust the local port to something else (a high port
number for example.. then you don't even have to ssh as root) and
direct any clients outbound smtp to use the high numbered port.
(it's not as transparent since some clients may ASSUME port 25)

As for the laptop...either start it manually, or... it might be possible
to do something tricky with inetd/xinetd.  I'd just start it up
automatically at boot though.