[nzlug] Uninstall exim to run postconf?

[Chris Hodgetts]

> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>    exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>    postfix
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 4 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> Need to get 1160kB of archives.
> After this operation, 995kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
> 
> Q: Would you have said Y?

Yes because postfix is better than Exim (IMHO and yes flame away)

> Q: Should I have obtained mail via the mailutils package rather?
Pass -- always install a mail server :)

> Q: Who's doing the mail tranfer for mail(1), and how do I configure it?
I guess it's postfix.

> Q: Do I even know what I'm talking about?  (I know the answer to that one.

Edit /etc/aliases 

where you have root make it go:

root:		emailaddress at ofyourisp.tld.nz

run newaliases

any message delivered to root at localhost/whateverhostnameis should then
get sent to your ISP e-mail address.

make sure that you have firewalled 25 off from the outside world (just a
precaution) 

If you dpkg-reconfigure postfix  you can set it to be a satellite server
or something and use your ISP as a "smart host" that way internally you
can submit messages to your mail server, and it will then send those
messages on to your ISP.

but that's just my thoughts...

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