of ephemeral value...

I have just setup a server that needs to forward all mail to a relay host. This sort of setup should be easy using the default sendmail configuration files on FreeBSD, but after battling for a while with .mc files I decided to see if there was anything else out there. I found some relay only MTA’s and after trying out FreeBSD ports of nullmailer and esmtp, I found ssmtp which does everything I need. It installed in less than a minute. I had it configured a minute later, and unlike the other two I was able to redirect root emails to my user account so as not to annoy the local sys-admin because after all this a UNIX box hiding in a Windows environment.