On Saturday 26 March 2005 05:09 pm, A. Khattri wrote: > On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > Edit /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf and /etc/ssmtp/revaliases. > > > > Isn't mailx simply a MUA? > > Yeah but some scripts need it to send out email.
I wasn't aware of that. That seems a broken way to do things. > > Unless I'm missing something, ssmtp is used to send messages off system > > to another mail server. I don't want local messages sent off system. > > Among other things, doesn't that mean that the mail has to be sent to a > > full fledged email address? > > You can specify that emails are simply forwarded to your mailhub if you > want. By mailhub, are you talking about the machine running my mail server? > > I simply want to be able to send a message to mylogin > > (where mylogin is any local user login) and have it dropped into the > > local mail spool. > > So you have qmail running on the same box??? No. qmail is running on another box. However, what I'm trying to do doesn't (or shouldn't) need qmail. For example, consider a company mainframe running *nix with no external connection. Local users, accessing the mainframe from terminals, should be able to send messages to one another. Messages should just be dropped into /var/spool/mail/username (or ~/.maildir, if so configured.) This was the way *nix was originally set up, so it shouldn't be difficult to do. I surely don't need the full power of sendmail or any other MTA to handle that, not do I need the messages shipped off this box to another box for distribution. -- [email protected] mailing list
