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

[Roy Vestal]

This is what I do. I have my output of my backups sent to an alias and then
/etc/mail/aliases has the alias listing "working" email addresses.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Murphy" <s.murphy at trifith.cotse.net>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] How can I send mail without a client ?


> 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.
> -- 
> Sean Murphy <s.murphy at trifith.cotse.net>
>
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