On 3/28/06, Matt England <mengland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (I'm cross-posting this to Fedora and Redhat lists, I hope that's ok.) > > 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? External projects perhaps? Google has not yet > turned up anything for me, other then smtp libraries to program around. > > 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? (I'd like to avoid writing a C/C++/Java > program for this...) > How about configuring sendmail on localhost to use the other SMTP as a smart host? If I get what you're saying, it does what you want and has the added advantage that you can use any command line email client - even good old mail. For example, to use smtp.example.com as the smart relay: sed -i -e 's/^DS$/DSsmtp.example.com/' /etc/mail/sendmail.cf service sendmail restart
