[lug] sendmail to send, not receive

[dan radom]

* Prafulla Harpanhalli (prafullakh at yahoo.com) wrote:
> the thread began with the person asking for mail
> __program__ that could enable him to mail from command
> line. Did'nt quite get why we are discussing about
> MTA's. Is it b'coz of the security issue by any
> chance? i really don't see a fix for this.
> 
> bye
> --- dan radom <dan at radom.org> wrote:
> > * Prafulla Harpanhalli (prafullakh at yahoo.com) wrote:
> > > try mutt; it has attacment facility. for ex:
> > > 
> > > mutt -a mail.tar.gz -s "my subject" me at domain.com
> > <
> > > message.txt
> > > 
> > > where message.txt is the "cover letter". Wonder if
> > u
> > > can use it with OpenOffice.
> > > 
> > 
> > mutt still relies on a local MTA, as it's just a MUA
> > and hopefully will
> > always be just a MUA.  i love my mutt!

uggh.  top posting stinks.  anyway fromthe original message...


"Something that works
like sendmail, but I don't want to install a program that can recieve
mail
and that has the security issues that goes along with that."

anyway the poster will need some sort of MTA, and i would suggest
sendmail with the DS (smart relay) configured to relay mail off his
providers SMTP server, and use mutt or mailx for his/her command line
mailings.

dan