[NTLUG:Discuss] mail configuration question

[Stuart Johnston]

Fred James wrote:
> All
> I have a Mandrake 9.1 box that among other things sends me email message 
> using "mail" (cat messageFile | mail -s "subject" myaddress).  This has 
> all worked just find until some recent changes in the corporate mail 
> system - they farmed it out, actually and now the mail from this server 
> arrives anywhere from one to four days late.
> 
> The solution they say is to make sure my mail is sent to a specific smtp 
> server - can anyone offer any guidance on that, please?

If you need to be able to continue using commands like 'mail', you'll 
probably want to setup the MTA on that server to use an SMTP Smart Host. 
  I believe Mandrake uses Postfix by default so you would set the 
'relayhost' parameter in /etc/postfix/main.cf to the appropriate SMTP 
server for your network.