using sendmail without the service running

Dave Cramer davec-zxk95TxsVYDyHADnj0MGvQC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org
Thu Sep 7 00:17:54 UTC 2006


John,

I've done it before, I just don't remember how...

remember sendmail is also an smtp client.

--dc--
On 6-Sep-06, at 8:08 PM, John Van Ostrand wrote:

> 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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