[rt-users] rt and sendmail problem

[Tim Cutts]

On 30 Aug 2008, at 4:07 pm, Bartosz Komander wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I have tried to find any answer to my problem in mailinglist  
> archive, but
> without success...
>
> My problem is, I want to install RT Tickets on the "www" machine. I  
> don't want
> to have there any MTA or such things... Fetching mails from external  
> mail
> server works perfectly, without problems. But sending mail doesn't  
> work at
> all.
>
> Is there any solution? How can I configure RT to connect to remote  
> smtp
> server, authorize and send an e-mail?

You might perhaps consider using an extremely simplistic MTA on the  
machine.  In similar circumstances, I tend to use something like  
nullmailer, which just provides a sendmail like interface but does  
nothing but forward the message to your designated mail server.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/nullmailer/

Regards,

Tim


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