Cmdline mail client that talks to remote SMTP server?

[Vladimir Kosovac]

By default, Red Hat systems (including Fedora) run sendmail daemon
after install. All you need to do is uncomment (remove 'dnl' at the
beginning) the line:

dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.your.provider')

in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file

and replace smtp.your.provider with valid smtp server name (that will
accept relaying for your outbound email)

Once you did this, run:

make -C /etc/mail

and restart sendmail:

service sendmail restart

Done. Sending email is done by running `mail` from command line (look
up man mail for options).

vnk



On 3/29/06, Matt England <mengland at mengland.net> wrote:
> (I'm cross-posting this to Fedora and Redhat lists, I hope that's ok.)
>
> I would like to send email from a CentOS/RHEL/Debian/Fedora command
> line client.  However, I want to be able to send the mail via a remote
> SMTP server, and thus said email cmdline app must also be a SMTP
> client.
>
> Does any such thing exist?  External projects perhaps?  Google has not yet
> turned up anything for me, other then smtp libraries to program around.
>
> I man mail(1)/mailx(1) on a Debian3.1-testing system and I found no
> SMTP reference in the man page.
>
> Do I effectively need to write some PHP, Python, or Perl app to do
> this...something that uses an SMTP module from one of the
> aforementioned language libraries?  (I'd like to avoid writing a C/C++/Java
> program for this...)
>
> -Matt
>
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