send mail from shell on 8.04 server (how to?)

[christopher.lemire at gmail.com]

There's a program called sendemail that makes it easy to send email from the command line and email spoofing. But I think it requires a mail server app such as sendmail or postfix (I prefer) so, that it can talk to the isp's mail server in SMTP. Mutt would be my first choice if I were you. Its not a full gui app, so its not bloated as big as for example thunderbird or evolution. You can always telnet or netcat the isp's servers with no additional software required, but it's tedious if emailing frequently or moderately. Though it sounds like you only want to sendemails, not receive. If you spam, your ip is likely to be blacklisted in many places. 
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Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:

> You'll need to install a 'sendmail' binary.  Whether that is sendmail
> itself, or Postfix, or one of the other lightweight alternatives.  It
> need not run as a service, since most native unix mail applications will
> will pipe the e-mail to the binary, rather than use smtp.

thanks, but that is actually what I'm trying to avoid. I am extremely
careful about what I  install on the server - and that includes mail
clients like mutt. I was hoping there would be a small, simple binary
that would communicate directly with my isp's smtp server when invoked
in a shell script, then terminate never to be seen or heard until
explicitly invoked by the shell again.

Nik N.

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