how to use sendmail as a client

[Ben Yau]

If you want this to be automated in someway, you will have to run it as a
daemon so there is something listening to send mail.  Is your question how
to set up sendmail as a daemon ONLY to send reports?  Or is your question
how do you send the reports without running a daemon?

I put something like this in some of my scripts

cat report.txt | /usr/lib/sendmail -f fromaddress at domain.com -v
toaddress at domain.com

For easier reading, include a Subject and To header as the first two lines
of report.txt... e.g.:

# cat report.txt
Subject: subject line
To: toaddress at domain.com

Startreport
blah blha
yaddayadda
endreport
#

Is that what you're looking for?  You will still need a working sendmail.cf
file even though you are not running it as a daemon.

Ben Yau

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Lito Lampitoc
> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 10:34 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: how to use sendmail as a client
>
>
> When sending e-mail to root it says,
> to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:30, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=relay, pri=30339, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0,
> stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
>
> Also, as much  as possible, I don't want to run the sendmail daemon as
> it is insecure, all I want to do is use sendmail to send e-mail to my
> admin(root) account in my other box for whatever activities it detected.
>
> Anish Mathew wrote:
>
> >>Lito Lampitoc <ral at codewan.com.ph> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>How do I setup sendmail on one of my box to send e-mail to my >>admin
> >>>account in my mail server?
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >
> >
> >I guess u need to add this line to ur sendmail.mc file
> >
> >define(`SMART_HOST',`your mail server`)
> >
> >after that recreate sendmail.cf file using m4 macro
> >
> >m4 < /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
> >
> >restart sendmail daemon after that ur sendmail will be a client
> forwarding mail to your main server.. if this is what ur looking for..
> >
> >hope that would help
> >
> >Anish
> >
> >
> >
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