Lyris List Manager forwards to Sendmail
Move Sendmail to an alternate port and inform Lyris List Manager to forward non-Lyris List Manager bound mail to Sendmail.
The advantage of this approach is that it is very easy to implement. The disadvantage is that it establishes a dependency of Sendmail on Lyris List Manager, so it is less reliable.
Please Note: We do not recommend that you use Lyris List Manager as a general purpose mail relay host for relaying outbound mail to the Internet. Lyris List Manager is not optimized for this use and
its ability to act as a "virtual server" can make successful relaying complicated. If you need a relay host on your machine, we recommend that you run Sendmail and Lyris List Manager on separate
TCP/IP addresses, or configure Sendmail to forward to Lyris List Manager, leaving Sendmail on port 25.
To move Sendmail to another port, such as port 26, add this line to your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file:
This option is explained in the "Options" chapter of the O'Reilly Sendmail book.
You can then install Lyris List Manager. Once you have installed it you need to tell it to forward non-Lyris List Manager mail to Sendmail. You can do this from the web interface "Server
configuration" page, or with the "forward" command line parameter. For example:
lyris forward 127.0.0.1 26
Lyris List Manager will validate your forward rule and reply with "Checking forwarding rule: 127.0.0.1 26" and then "Successfully updated forwarding rule". This example forwarding
command tells it to forward non-Lyris List Manager mail to port 26 on the local machine ("localhost"). If no SMTP server is running on that TCP/IP / port combination, Lyris List Manager will not
save your forwarding rule.
|