[Tfug] email question

[Joe Blais]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org]On Behalf Of
> Matt Jacob
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 1:47 PM
> To: Tucson Free Unix Group
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] email question
>
>
> On 6/26/07, Joe Blais <joe.blais at pti-instruments.com> wrote:
> > part of my problem.  What MTA (?) is simple enough for me to
> setup.  And,
> > can I just call it from my app and pass it a few parameters so
> it will send
> > a short message?
>
> Postfix is pretty easy to configure, and most people consider it to be
> more secure than qmail, Exim, Sendmail (obviously), etc. Install mailx
> and then you can easily do something like this:
>
> mail -s "subject goes here" send.to at example.com < some_text_file.txt


I take it, this is not the "mail" that comes with sendmail?

There is a "mail" on my system that appears to use sendmail.  I tried it,
it's interactive and "seemed" to work, but I got some failure notification
that localhost didn't do this and that -- basically it appeared to me it
didn't know anything about my IPS (relayhost ?).


>
> In /etc/postfix/main.cf, you can set relayhost to your ISP's SMTP
> server for those annoying times when outgoing port 25 is blocked:

I don't have any folder named "postfix"

>
> relayhost = smtp.west.cox.net
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Matt


I'll check out postfix on the web - it looks just like what I want to do.
Thanks
Joe