using sendmail without the service running

[Dave Cramer]

Answering my own question

in /etc/mail/submit.mc

change

dnl If you use IPv6 only, change [127.0.0.1] to [IPv6:::1]
FEATURE(`msp', `[127.0.0.1]')dnl

to
FEATURE(`msp', `your smtp server')dnl

and shut down sendmail

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On 7-Sep-06, at 1:40 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:

> 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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