On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 22:01 -0600, Matt England wrote:
> I would like to send email from a CentOS/RHEL/Debian/Fedora command
> line client. However, I want to be able to send the mail via a remote
> SMTP server, and thus said email cmdline app must also be a SMTP
> client.
>
> Does any such thing exist?
>
> I man mail(1)/mailx(1) on a Debian3.1-testing system and I found no
> SMTP reference in the man page.
>
> Do I effectively need to write some PHP, Python, or Perl app to do
> this...something that uses an SMTP module from one of the
> aforementioned language libraries?
Do you have exim4 or postfix installed? Probably so.
Configure them to be a relay host. That way, email to any non-local
address will be relayed to the remote smtp server.
$ echo "testing testing" | mail -v -s "this is a relayhost test" \
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Note, though, that spam filters might catch it if your machine
has a fake FQDN.
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