On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:47:38AM -0700, Justin The Cynical wrote: > > I have recently set up a dedicated nagios box and need to > get the email notifications working. > > What I am looking for is a send (or forward) only > mail server that is sendmail compatible (has the > /usr/sbin/sendmail link). > > I can always install postfix or something else, but this > seems to be overkill for the purpose at hand. > > I ask for the sendmail part as most clients I can find that > are lightweight as well (such as mailx) try to use said > binary to send anything out. > > Any suggestions? > ---end quoted text---
For a dedicated box with no local MTA, for forwarding mail to a valid email id through a smarthost, few options are: a) libesmtp with esmtp wrapper. Symlink /usr/bin/esmtp to /usr/sbin/sendmail or /usr/lib/sendmail b) Use a perl script : sendEmail (linked on freshmeat). You need to write a wrapper script to mimic "sendmail -t" and place it in /usr/sbin/sendmail such that it uses sendEmail to negotiate the mail delivery. c) Use mutt in command line mode, with smarthost defined in ~/.muttrc, with -i (inline) or -a (attachment) option to send the message. You would need a wrapper script to be written for the purpose, if you want "/usr/sbin/sendmail" specifically, as in the above case. Just a few suggestions. There may be more. Bish -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
