Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:41 -0500 From: "George Georgalis" <george@galis.org> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sending mail to SMTP from command line Message-ID: <20060124012941.GA6825@sta.duo> In-Reply-To: <768cbe130601221107t774b50dbp785640aef5473e33@mail.gmail.com> References: <dr0dt1$sg0$1@sea.gmane.org> <768cbe130601221107t774b50dbp785640aef5473e33@mail.gmail.com>
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>On 1/22/06, Matias Surdi <matiassurdi@gmail.com> 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 <IXOYE>< http://galis.org/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:george@galis.org
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