[gentoo-user] Re: Local mail
* edj (2003-07-15 03:31 +0200) My machine is not sending localmail, i.e., error messages, cron junk, etc, to root -- Sendmail: cannot open port 25.No wonder - I do not have sendmail installed. Sure you have. Try which sendmail. I'd rather not install it. I have ssmtp, but my wanderings around Google tell me that it is not for delivery of local mail. That's exactly what it's for. Have a look at /etc/ssmtp. Is there anything smaller, less complicated than sendmail which I can get and use? * ssmtp * http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=61606 * http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56633 Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Local mail
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:12:23AM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * edj (2003-07-15 03:31 +0200) My machine is not sending localmail, i.e., error messages, cron junk, etc, to root -- Sendmail: cannot open port 25.No wonder - I do not have sendmail installed. Sure you have. Try which sendmail. I'd rather not install it. I have ssmtp, but my wanderings around Google tell me that it is not for delivery of local mail. That's exactly what it's for. Have a look at /etc/ssmtp. Thorsten, I think you're confusing the sendmail package with the sendmail executable. Because of unix history and standards, a mail package must include a sendmail executable for use by other applications - this is true of sendmail, qmail, postfix, and so on. But ssmtp is just a simple package for getting mail from a local system to a remote MTA; it doesn't handle incoming mail, which is what the original question was about. Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Local mail
On Tuesday 15 July 2003 04:12 am, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * edj (2003-07-15 03:31 +0200) My machine is not sending localmail, i.e., error messages, cron junk, etc, to root -- Sendmail: cannot open port 25.No wonder - I do not have sendmail installed. Sure you have. Try which sendmail. Well, well - shows what I know. Somewhere below in this thread, you state that this sendmail is a link to ssmtp. At least on my gentoo, it isn't, It's just a plain old executable. ssmtp has been removed. Anyway, I was looking originally for the other sendmail, as in emerge sendmail. * http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=61606 * http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56633 Thanks a lot (a _whole_ lot - to everybody) for the pointers. It all works now! -- Ed Jabbour -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
