On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Sandy Drobic
Mark V wrote:
/usr/sbin/alternatives
Thanks for responding Sandy.
Suse does not have such a mechanism to choose/switch the MTA.
OK, I dug around and discovered I need to alter the rpm spec file to change /usr/sbin/alternatives to /usr/sbin/update-alternatives
My first dabble in rpm spec files.... happily it was a simple change.
ok.
Why not use the default Postfix?
I want to send mail directly from the command line to my gmail account without using an intermediate mail server.
Okay, otherwise I would have used mini_sendmail, a cmd client to send mails, though unfortunately without authentication support. I use it a lot if I want to send mails via smtp to an internal mailserver.
My understanding was ssmtp is the simplest way to get this functionality. I'm just going to use this on my laptop to have bacula send email notices to me, so setting up a mailserver seemed over kill - an far beyond my skill set :)
You could simply use only the client within Postfix and use Postfix as a nulllcient.
Thanks for the suggestions. My use case is probably a minority case, and unreasonably dogmatic about the simplicity required :) Happily Linux accommodates all this, and more! I'll start another thread to enquire about the simplest steps 'send-an-email-from-the-command-line' on openSUSE. Regards Mark
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