[TriLUG] How can I send mail without a client ?

Sean Murphy s.murphy at trifith.cotse.net
Fri Jun 20 15:55:24 EDT 2003


On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 15:52, Ryan Leathers wrote:
> I would like to send emails based on events in logs and so on.
> I have no trouble selecting events in an automated way.
> I bet I can also format text to conform to some convention.
> 
> This needs to be unattended - automatic - magic.
> What is a simple way to send this email without writing code?
> What do non-programmers use to solve this kind of thing?
> Telnet to port 25 of some mail server?

What about the mail command? Set it up as a cron job.
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Sean Murphy <s.murphy at trifith.cotse.net>




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