using sendmail without the service running

[Walter Dnes]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 06:09:59PM -0400, Dave Cramer wrote
> I used to know how to do this, but can't find it anymore.
> 
> 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 simply want a simple send-only client, try ssmtp, which does
only one thing, i.e. push email out the door to a smarthost (i.e. an
MTA).  It's usually your ISP's MTA, but could be any MTA, if you can
point it to the proper machine.

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