From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 24 02:31:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87AC216A41F for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:31:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from george@galis.org) Received: from sta.galis.org (sta.galis.org [66.250.170.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E45DD43D60 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:31:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from george@galis.org) Received: (qmail 9129 invoked by uid 2000); 24 Jan 2006 02:31:37 -0000 From: "George Georgalis" Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:31:37 -0500 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060124023137.GA8617@sta.duo> References: <768cbe130601221107t774b50dbp785640aef5473e33@mail.gmail.com> <20060124012941.GA6825@sta.duo> <20060124022032.GI83399@evil.alameda.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060124022032.GI83399@evil.alameda.net> Subject: Re: Sending mail to SMTP from command line X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:31:38 -0000 On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 06:20:32PM -0800, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: >On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 08:29:41PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: >> >> >> >On 1/22/06, Matias Surdi wrote: >> >> >> >> Can some body tell me how can I send a mail from the command line (or a >> >> bash script) to a remote (ISP) SMTP server??? >> >> >> >> I don't want to have my own mta enabled on my host, just send a mail as >> >> I would do from mozilla thunderbird, but from the command line. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 01:07:49PM -0600, Kenny @ Gmail wrote: >> >Google is your friend. >> >http://www.yuki-onna.co.uk/email/smtp.html >> >> I don't think that's what the OP had in mind... atthis moment I'm >> typing with a broken terminal... at least I can use vim... >> >> problem is no /usr/lib/sendmail replacement that doesn't require a >> daemon to watch the queue and connect to remote hosts. >> >> in this age of regulated sites that would be really handy too. eg >> at a financial site, it would be really useful to not run a smtp >> daemon (even only on 127.0.0.1) to avoid the audit; but still have >> a sendmail replacement which forks and tries to deliver the mail >> for seven days eg one process for each message, or something more >> advanced, one process for a queue in a tempdir which disappears >> when each message is delivered and the process ends. (my idea, >> public domain) >> >> // George > >One option is like running sendmail -q from cron every 15 minutes. So if >you use sendmail to send something, it fails on first try, it puts it in the >queue and the cronjob will try to deliver it again. Good idea! ...will give it a try. // George -- George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator < http://galis.org/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:george@galis.org