Re: [tlug] sending mails to the localhost

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:23:51AM +0900, Josh wrote:
> On 01/08/06, Hector Akamine <akamine@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have seen some examples of scripts triggered by processes running
> > locally that use the command "mail" to notify the admin/root in case
> > something is going wrong. My question: do I need a full-fledged mail
> > server running in the host to have these messages sent?
> 
> No, you do not need an actual MTA. What you can use instead depends on
> the distro; Gentoo uses a package called ssmtp:
> 
> http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=ssmtp
> 


> Debian (and by extension, Ubuntu, I would assume) has a very similar
> package, but I don't remember what it is called. I am sure someone on
> this list will, though.

They probably have ssmtp.  There are a few other similar ones, esmtp,
msmtp.  However, ssmtp writes to /var/log/maillog, and I don't think the
others do.

http://qnd-guides.org/qnd-ssmtp.html


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