specify SMTP relay server in mutt

[Sunhux G]

Have to remove both -a & -S in order not to get the syntax
error but the emails never arrive:
(I'm able to 'telnet 172.20.1.92 25' from the server that mailx is issued
from)

# mailx -s "test5" -u root  "smtp=172.20.1.92" recipient at xxx.com <
/tmp/cis/group.tmp
    Or
# mailx -s "test5" -u root "smtp=172.20.1.92:25" recipient at xxx.com <
/tmp/cis/group.tmp


If I issue just the command below from the sendmail relay
server itself (without the -S & without "smtp=IP_of_SMTP"),
the emails arrive:

 mailx -s "from SMTP2 server" external_recipient at xxx.com < /tmp/tst.dat

I browsed thru the man pages for mailx : can't
locate a -S or "smtp=a.b.c.d" option.  Did I miss
something?



On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Sunhux G <sunhux at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> What Harris gave with mailx is probably what I'm looking for,
> just that I can't get the syntax right with -a (or even if I leave
> out the -a option) :
>
> # mailx -s "test" -a /tmp/tst.tar.gz -S "smtp=172.20.1.92"
> recipient at xxx.com < /tmp/cis/group.tmp
>     Or (without the -u )
> # mailx -s "test" -a /tmp/tst.tar.gz -u whitelistid at xxx.com -S
> "smtp=172.20.1.92" recipient at xxx.com < /tmp/cis/group.tmp
> mailx: invalid option -- a
> Usage: mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr ...
>             [-- sendmail-options ...]
>        mail [-iInNv] -f [name]
>        mail [-iInNv] [-u user]
> What did I miss?  I've tried with uuencode (referring to some
> examples on the Net) too but no joy
>
>
> SH
>