Dumb question on mail

[roger2]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:47:55 -0800 (PST), jg <jg573 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ok I know this is a dumb simple one, but I forgot how
> you go about doing this...
>
> I want to be able to send email from the command line,
> but I want the system to use my ISP's mail server.
>
> i.e., where do I tell the system that the SMTP server
> to use for sending mail is mail.earthlink.net
>
> Don't I just stick that in a file somehwere?
>
> I want to do this on my box so it can mail me alerts &
> notifcations from cronjobs.
>
If using sendmail it is the smart host part of the config.
The exact wording might be different I'm not near a Linux box at the 
moment.
But the line is commented so you should not miss it.
Regards Roger