using sendmail without the service running

[John Van Ostrand]

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 18:09 -0400, Dave Cramer wrote:
> I used to know how to do this, but can't find it anymore.
> I don't think
> There is a way to configure sendmail to send mail through a remote  
> smtp server without first queuing it locally. Does anyone know the  
> secret incantation ?

If you use sendmail I don't think that you'll find a "don't queue"
option. I've never looked but sendmail is meant for store-and-forward.

You need to find an SMTP client for Linux. There may be an elm or pine
or mutt setup that may achieve this for this if you want to set it up.
SMTP clients are pretty simple so I suspect you should be able to find
one that does just what you want. A small perl script would do the job.




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