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| Sending SMTP mail using msmtp |
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Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:45:45 GMT |
I have a few servers running cron jobs and I would like to have an email
sent out by these jobs (along with a short status log) when they
complete. Rather then setting up SMTP on each server I'm trying to use
msmtp (http://msmtp.sourceforge.net) to simply pass it to an SMTP server
we already have running.
I see msmtp is now included with SUSE 10 but since my servers are SLES9, I
downloaded the generic source and did the ./configure - make - make
install bit. Program runs but I have yet to figure out the syntax.
Setting up the msmtprc config file was well documented and easy enough.
However there are no examples of actually using msmtp in sendmail mode. I
have yet to figure out the command line syntax to simply send an SMTP
message to one or more recipients. The contents of the message will be a
short text file. The SMTP server is defined in the msmtprc config file
along with "auto_from on".
Anyone out there familiar with this program? Thanks!
-Chuck
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Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:56:03 GMT |
chuck_perilli_nospam@navyfederal.org wrote:
> I have a few servers running cron jobs and I would like to have an email
> sent out by these jobs (along with a short status log) when they
> complete. Rather then setting up SMTP on each server I'm trying to use
> msmtp (http://msmtp.sourceforge.net) to simply pass it to an SMTP server
> we already have running.
Why use msmtp ? Just configure postfix as a 'null client' (see
/etc/sysconfig/postfix) and everything should work out-of-the-box.
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Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:15:53 GMT |
I'll give it a try. Thanks,
-Chuck
> chuck_perilli_nospam@navyfederal.org wrote:
> > I have a few servers running cron jobs and I would like to have an
email
> > sent out by these jobs (along with a short status log) when they
> > complete. Rather then setting up SMTP on each server I'm trying to
use
> > msmtp (http://msmtp.sourceforge.net) to simply pass it to an SMTP
server
> > we already have running.
>
> Why use msmtp ? Just configure postfix as a 'null client' (see
> /etc/sysconfig/postfix) and everything should work out-of-the-box.
>
> John P.
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