From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 24 01:29:43 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 E22B216A41F for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:29:43 +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 535F743D45 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 01:29:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from george@galis.org) Received: (qmail 8040 invoked by uid 2000); 24 Jan 2006 01:29:41 -0000 From: "George Georgalis" Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:41 -0500 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060124012941.GA6825@sta.duo> References: <768cbe130601221107t774b50dbp785640aef5473e33@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <768cbe130601221107t774b50dbp785640aef5473e33@mail.gmail.com> 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 01:29:44 -0000 >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 -- George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator < http://galis.org/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:george@galis.org