[lug] standalone sendmail

[karl horlen]

> On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 03:19 -0800, karl horlen
> wrote:
> > I'd like the system to email logwatch messages
> > normally destined for root to go to an external
> email
> > alias account as specified in /etc/aliases.  
> 
> I do this with ssmtp, which replaces sendmail.  All
> my hosts behind my
> firewall at home send logwatch email using ssmtp
> through my imap account
> on my remote server.

This actually should work for me.  As I explained in
the other post, my remote server is really an ISP mail
account.  As long as I have imap access (what about
pop?), it sounds like this should work.  ssmtp sounds
like it turns and MTA into an IMAP client.

Thanks for the links

> It's hard to find the source for this - I don't
> remember where I got it.
> But I googled around and found a bunch of mirrors
> that may hold it:
> 
>
http://www.filewatcher.com/m/ssmtp_2.61.orig.tar.gz.53341.0.0.html
> 
> Considering I can't seem to find it anywhere else, I
> think I'll stick it
> on my site too.
> 
>
http://www.graphics-muse.org/source/ssmtp_2.61.orig.tar.gz
> 
> -- 
> Michael J. Hammel                                   
> Senior Software Engineer
> mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                          
> http://graphics-muse.org
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