mail / mailx question

[Dan Ritter]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:33:24AM -0500, Chandler, Scott wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm new to the list so I'm not sure if this is the proper place to post questions like this. If not, please let me know the right place.
> 
> We're using Nagios to monitor our equipment. It sends alerts through a locally installed copy of sendmail to our (end user) email server which then goes out to a pager. If the email server goes down, it won't do much good to send the alert to that server so I need an alternate alert which sends email through an outside address.
> 
> Does anyone know the syntax for the mail command to send to a different SMTP server? It looks like there are a couple ways to do this, use the account switch, use an alternate .mailrc/mail.rc file, maybe more.
> 
> Ideally, I'd like to have a standalone command without using a config file or script.

The tool you are looking for is called ssmtp. The first s is for
simple.

http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/132006 is a decent
introduction.

-dsr-



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