sending email

[Piotr Kirklewski]

Hi there

Im trying to make mail sending email from my private account.

(nither sendmail or postfix are installed on my machine).

Is there any way to pass my smtp server username and password to this command:


echo "text"\mail myemail@example.com

???

Best Regards

Peter

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

Hi, normally, SMTP does not requires authenticantion, but if so, you can try some perl SMTP script like this:

http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/smtp/index.xp?show_selected=1&msgid=31

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Yes,

vi /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

Change

DS

to

DShostnameofsmtprelayserver

Read that last line carefully because its a clue. You need to KNOW the hostname of the SMTP relay server before you start.

Or

DS
[192.168.0.10]

Where the IP address is the IP address of the SMTP relay server. This will work even if name resolution is down on your network.

Please note very carefully however that the intended relay server may require configuration to accept the mail. What configuration depends on what the OS and Mail Transfer system is on that system.

Then you need to restart sendmail.

service sendmail restart

You don't really need to run sendmail to get mail off the box, but for the sake of simplicity, thats the easy way to go.

mailq
# displays if mail is stuck in the outbound mail queue. There should never be mail there unless you have a problem.

SEP

[Piotr Kirklewski]

Well

My account information (given by my provider)is something like that:

address: myname@wp.pl
smtp server: smtp.wp.pl
pop3 server: pop3.wp.pl

password: myverysecurepassword

Those are the credentials I'm using to configure mail clients under windows.
My question is:

Is there any way to tell mail to send message using my account information?

As I said before nor sendmail or postfix are installed. (do I have to install them ?)

Best Regards

Peter

[Ivan Ferreira]

The sender address is set by the MUA (mail client). This information does not have to match the information used to retrieve the mails from the POP server.

This means that you can use any sender address if you specify so in your mail client or command line.

[Piotr Kirklewski]

Yep

That's exactly my question:

What comand should I use to SEND email from my unix system, using external provider.

Regards

Peter

[Stuart Browne]

Ok.

You either use a client (Thunderbird, Evolution, Mutt) and use those POP/SMTP values in the client.

If you want to use the 'ol "mail" command to do some command-line automated notifications etc. etc., yes, you will need sendmail or postfix.

Both sendmail and postfix use the 'smart host' mentality to forward all SMTP stuff to a remote SMTP server. Doing SMTP Authentication on that connection is quite different between the two services, so pick one, and we'll help you further.

[Ivan Ferreira]

You should configure postfix, which is very simple comparing with sendmail.

If this is a red hat based system, do this:

Ensure that postfix is installed
rpm -qa |grep postfix

Then
service sendmail stop
chkconfig sendmail off
alternatives --config mta


Configure postfix as in this link:
http://www.gungeralv.org/notes/archives/2003/06/howto_configure_postfix_to_use_a_remote_smtp_relay_host.php

Then start the service
service postfix start
chkconfig postfix on