[Scottish] Send mail from script via remote smtp

[Colin Shorts]

You could always do something clever with the printer queue, which may
or may not have less restrictions placed upon it...

-Colin

Robert McWilliam wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:48:13AM +0100, Paxton, Darren wrote:
>   
>> Now for what is probably the bleeding obvious bit. Our standard build
>> has sendmail disabled by default so what I'd like to do it be able to
>> tell the mail command to connect to our internal smtp server in order to
>> deliver the message to the needed recipients.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a way of achieving this or have any other
>> suggestions? 
>>     
>
> As well as the previous suggestion of perl, python's smtplib module
> can speak to an smtp server and there are probably libs for most other
> languages too. 
>
> There are a few apps that provide a sendmail-like command line
> interface and forward on to a remote smtp server, I use msmtp here but
> there are others, looking in mutt's documentation will find a few. 
>
>       Robert
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