On 30 Sep 2003, at 12:22 pm, Stephen Boulet wrote:
On Monday 29 September 2003 02:45 pm, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote:If you only want to send mails from the command line, you first have to set
up ssmtp (under /etc/ssmtp ... or something like that).
After that, you can send an email via
$ cat /path/to/mail.txt | mail -s <subject> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I probably don't have /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf configured correctly. I get this
error:
# cat file.txt | sendmail -s "mailing from the command line" [EMAIL PROTECTED] sendmail: Cannot open mail.localdomain:25
You almost certainly don't.
Have you actually tried LOOKING at /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf..?
It is the most simple configuration file I have ever encountered under Unix.
I suggest you back it up using `cp /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf.example` and try messing around with it.
if you call `sendmail` (which, I think you'll find is a sym-link to `ssmtp`) with the "-v" flag then it will help you identify what the problem is. I think that 30 minutes of this will help you resolve your issues better than days of helpless, uninformational postings to this group.
I suggest you also read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
If you have any more questions, please provide more informational - the contents of your /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf & the full output of `cat file.txt | sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stroller.
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