----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark V"
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Sandy Drobic
wrote: 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.
send-an-email-from-the-command-line on any *ix: sendmail -t -i <<%%M to: somedude@somehost.com from: me@myhost.com hey this is an email %%M I think you're thinking too hard. Just go into yast, find the Mail Transfer Agent under network services, and just hit ok on every screen, don't set or change anything, just next, next, next, done. It doesn't matter that you have postfix, or qmail, or mmdf, or exim, etc instead of sendmail. They all have a command called "sendmail", and it always takes the same options for all the common options for exactly this reason (compatibility, integration). Your difficulties, which you will not be able to avoid no matter how simple the software is, will come in the form of your ISP blocking outgoing email by various and nefarious rfc-breaking schemes in their attempt to avoid being charged with fostering spammers. -- Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO FreeBSD #callahans Satriani Filk! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org