Configuring mail\mailx to use an external smtp server.

Configuring mail\mailx to use an external smtp server.

[Adam]

I'm trying to configure either mail or mailx to use an external smtp server

(using sendmail locally is not an option).



I'm trying to set the server up to send out sarg reports and AFAIK, it can

use either mail or mailx to send it out.
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Re: Configuring mail\mailx to use an external smtp server.

[Cristian CHIRILOV]

Hello,

I don't know for sure if it's possible to configure mail/mailx to use an
external SMTP server.

You can use nail instead.

ls -all /usr/bin/mail

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Jan  1  1996 /usr/bin/mail ->
nail*

man nail

smtp Normally, nail invokes sendmail(8) directly  to  transfer messages.
If the smtp variable is set, a SMTP connection  to the server specified
by the value of this variable is used instead. If the SMTP server does
not use the stan-dard port, a value of server:port can be given, with
port  as a name or as a number.

cat ~/.mailrc
set smtp=mail.example.com

bye.


From: "Adam" <adam@luchjenbroers.com>

To: <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:21 AM
Subject: Configuring mail\mailx to use an external smtp server.

>
> I'm trying to configure either mail or mailx to use an external smtp
> server
> (using sendmail locally is not an option).

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