> Is there a way to use the "mail" command in Linux to talk > directly to our MS > Exchange Server? That is, without something like SendMail or > PostFix running > in the Linux instance? We only want outgoing "status" type > emails going out. > No incoming mail.
No, not really. You need some kind of MTA to actually deliver the message to the Exchange box. /bin/mail is not a MTA. To accomplish what you want, configure sendmail in a smarthost configuration, but do not start it in daemon mode at boot. Easiest way to do this on SuSE is to use the "outgoing mailer" setting in the YaST MTA configuration dialog to point to the Exchange box, and make sure that the "accept remote connections" box is NOT checked. This will cause sendmail to be configured to run outgoing only. There are similar configurations for postfix and exim. -- db
