Re: send e-mail without use sendmail

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell gmail com>]

John Summerfield wrote:

> > > I'm looking for a line command utility (MTA) which send an email direct
> > > to a SMTP external server.
> > >
> > > if I use: "echo bye|mutt -s bye user dom it"
> > >
> > > the message is send to local sendmail, then sendmail send it to mx
> > > record dom.it, but dom.it refuse me for security and anti-spam reason.
> > >
> > > I'm looking for a command which send my message direct to my provider,
> > > like evolution or Thunderbird do.
> >
> > You don't need to stop using sendmail for that, just configure it to 
> > do what you want.  Edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc where it says:
> >
> > dnl # Uncomment and edit the following line if your outgoing mail 
> > needs to
> > dnl # be sent out through an external mail server:
> > dnl #
> > dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.your.provider')dnl
>
> This is the "correct" way to do it.
>
>
>
> In a later email, Les, you recommend masquerading. This will probably 
> work for Dario, but it has the disadvantage that it only works if 
> there's a one-one mapping: if debian here is the same as 
> debian westnet com au, my Internat Access Provider.
>
> In my case that's not so, and if debian westnet com au does exist, then 
> it's certainly not me.

Masquarading is mostly to give a legal qualified host name for machines 
that don't have one.  If you need some other From: address, put it on 
the message yourself or configure your mail client to do it instead of 
taking the default.

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  Les Mikesell
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