SMTP server for Linux

am 14.11.2005 22:35:05 von Rohit Sehgal

Hi,

I am newbie to Linux but have been using SMTP servers on Windows for
years.

I am looking for some SMTP server on Linux (Redhat Enterprise ver 4.0)
so that I can use my own MTA. I want SMTP server to drop incoming mails
to say some "drop" directory from where my MTA can deliver the messages
in the our proprietry format.

Can sendmail be configured like that? Any other suggestions for SMTP
server; like Qmail, JAMES etc??

Any help is appreaciated.

thanks

Rohit

Re: SMTP server for Linux

am 15.11.2005 03:15:04 von AK

Rohit wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am newbie to Linux but have been using SMTP servers on Windows for
> years.
>
> I am looking for some SMTP server on Linux (Redhat Enterprise ver 4.0)
> so that I can use my own MTA. I want SMTP server to drop incoming mails
> to say some "drop" directory from where my MTA can deliver the messages
> in the our proprietry format.
>
> Can sendmail be configured like that? Any other suggestions for SMTP
> server; like Qmail, JAMES etc??
>
> Any help is appreaciated.
>
> thanks
>
> Rohit
>

Please clarify "proprietery format".

Any MTA, sendmail, postfix, exim, and qmail can be configured to accept
the incoming email. The local delivery will be "reformatting" the email
into a "proprietery format" and presumably sending it back out or will
the messages be POPed or IMAPed off?

AK

Re: SMTP server for Linux

am 15.11.2005 05:45:20 von Rohit Sehgal

We have our own IMAP Server/ Phone Access software (Text To Speech) to
access mail from proprietery SQL based Database. So, basically, I am
just looking for plain SMTP server (something like Windows SMTP server)
which drop mails into some folder just based on my domain name and
don't try to validate aliases on the domain name.

Do you know how to configure Sendmail (and disable procmail) so that
1) All incoming messages are droped in a folder
2) I do get list of recients in the SMTP communication (not the "To"
list of the message)

I have already done 1) with virtusertable in Sendmail but, I am not
able to correctly do 2).

But, its still complex. I just want to get all my messages in a folder
so that I can write my own LDA (without using procmail).

thanks

Rohit

Re: SMTP server for Linux

am 15.11.2005 07:25:22 von ynotssor

"Rohit" wrote in message
news:1132029920.840236.179650@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com

> Do you know how to configure Sendmail (and disable procmail) so that
> 1) All incoming messages are droped in a folder
> 2) I do get list of recients in the SMTP communication (not the "To"
> list of the message)
>
> I have already done 1) with virtusertable in Sendmail but, I am not
> able to correctly do 2).
>
> But, its still complex. I just want to get all my messages in a folder
> so that I can write my own LDA (without using procmail).

It wouldn't be so complex if you'd read the documentation provided in the
sendmail distribution concerning defining a mailer, as already indicated to
you in comp.mail.sendmail.

Re: SMTP server for Linux

am 15.11.2005 09:14:13 von Frank Elsner