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Re: Cmdline mail client that talks to remote SMTP server?



On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 17:05 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2006-03-28 22:01:08, schrieb Matt England:
> > 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?
> 
> YES,  -  "apt-get install ssmtp" and then
> 
> ssmtp -t <MSG
> To: a@b.c
> From: blubber@example.com
> Date: `date -R`
> Message-Id: <1.2.3.4@example.com>
> Subject: some weired stuff
> 
> noting usefull
> MSG

But it conflicts with all other MTAs, so if the box already has an
MTA (like pretty much all Linux boxes except Ubuntu), that will
get removed, possibly breaking something else.

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