[TriLUG] Sending mail without sendmail or postfix

[Kevin Flanagan]

I would prefer to not install any MTA, fully or just binaries on disk if
I can get away with it.    I'd really like to tell the admins of the
system that they need to use something better than ksh for scripts to
send mail, then they have a lot of options, as described earlier, but
here's what they say they want.

- ability to send email to a smarthost from a shell script
- ability to send email to the same smarthost via other languages,
mostly PERL


Here's what I want

- The least possible software installed, working from the stance that if
it's not installed there aren't ANY weaknesses introduced by it
(whatever it happens to be)
- The admins to be able to do their jobs 



>From what I read so far, I'll be looking to see what nullmailer looks
like, and if it's available for RHEL and SLES



Thanks again,




    Kevin





On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 15:11 -0500, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:

> Kevin Flanagan wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >  I'm working on a project at work to define the standard Linux build,
> >right now we are working our way through the list of packages to define
> >what's on the systems and have a question.
> >
> >
> >How can I send mail out from a Linux system without having an MTA, usually
> >this would be done via a script.  Is there a config file for mail/mailx or
> >something along these lines that I can modify to point at our internal
> >relay.
> >  
> >
> Can you be more specific about what you do have at your disposal?  Do 
> you have PERL?  You said you don't have a working (read: configured?) 
> MTA, but do you have the sendmail binary at all?  Do you have netcat 
> (nc)?  Generally speaking, in order to send mail, you'll need one of 
> these items, in order of increasing complexity:
> an MTA
> a binary capable of doing it for you (ala sendmail)
> a reasonably powerful scripting language (ala PERL, PHP, Python, Ruby)
> netcat and an understanding of SMTP
> 
> If you can provide more details, I can provide better pointers to a 
> solution.
> 
> Aaron S. Joyner

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Kevin Flanagan <kevin at flanagannc.net>