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SunZoomSpark
Joined: 13 Nov 2006
Posts: 15
Location: London, UK
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:04 am Post subject: Minimal Mail |
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Hello linoders ...
Right now, I want to use my linode for something quite simple.
No http or ftp (ports 80 and 25 closed), but I do need a very minimal email capacity.
I'm not planning to use a domain name here -- username@lixx-nnn.members.linode.com seems to be adequate for incoming mail. However I need to send email out.
This is how it would work:
1. Email to username@mydomain.org (mydomain.org is hosted elsewhere) gets thoroughly filtered for spam and irrelevance (combined sequence of SpamAssassin and procmail) and is then forwarded to username@lixx-nnn.members.linode.com
2. The 'username' mailbox is processsed periodically (cron job) by a Perl script, which does something and then replies to username@mydomain.org
3. username@mydomain.org then forwards the reply to the original sender.
So far (only been here a week) I haven't set up anything to send email. Can anyone recommend a good, lightweight method of handling this very simple requirement? Traffic is predicted to be fairly low.
Setup: linode 100 + Debian, apparently exim-ready. |
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SunZoomSpark
Joined: 13 Nov 2006
Posts: 15
Location: London, UK
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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Answering my own question here ... there is nothing else to do, except add a .forward file ... Code: | perl /home/<username>/<path_to_perl_script>
The Perl script handles all the outgoing mail without a hitch. |
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SunZoomSpark
Joined: 13 Nov 2006
Posts: 15
Location: London, UK
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject: One more thing |
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Also one edit in /etc/exim/exim.conf ...
qualify_domain = lixx-nnn.members.linode.com
The default is
qualify_domain = 1
which will cause message to have headers like
Return-Path: <username@1> |
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