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Do you install a mail server on every VPS? How else do you get messages sent to root/
DisplacedTexan
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I imagine most of you have several different VPS you manage. Do you install a mail server on each one?
If not, how do you receive error messages, etc directed at root, or do you just not get them?
Looking for an easy way to receive e-mail's sent to root with minimal configuration on each VPS.
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I just don't get them. There has never been anything important in them at all
Add your e-mail address to /root/.forward and then use this to ensure delivery: https://github.com/KuJoe/Sendmail-to-SSMTP
I usually need mail one way or another, so I always install postfix and configure it to use my mail server as a smarthost.
I have no need for a mailserver since I use G/Hotmail
Edit: see the rest of my post here
For some reason when I post that I get the cloudflare blocked error...
Yeah, my previous post covers that.
I just install postfix on every VPS, in the ubuntu repos it is no open relay anyway by default. You can even leave port 25 incoming closed if it's only about outgoing mail. That's however for actual outgoing mail like logwatch. About mail to users like root...? I don't really care (although you'll get it with that method as well)
I've been using PaperTrail free package for a few months now. Works pretty good