Only allow outgoing email

Question

Excuse the complete noob question, but here goes:

I've got a VPS running Ubuntu which is hosting a bunch of WordPress sites. I'd like to be able to set up contact forms, so website visitors can contact me. It looks like I need some kind of mail stack installed, so WordPress plugins can email me the information visitors fill out on the site.

So my question is: what applications (like sendmail) do I need to set up so I can get email sent to me when the contact forms are filled out? I don't want to ever connect to the VPS to send mail, I don't want to connect to the VPS to collect mail (no POP or IMAP needed), I only want apps on the VPS to send me emails.

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you are server is *nix based then you can install 'SENDMAIL' and configure you webserver to use it. It will send mail directly without POP or IMAP. Google "how to configure SENDMAIL with 'your-web-server'"