Tim Bruce wrote: > You should continue to use mailx (or other tool) for the command. ssmtp > will pick up the email and forward it on (if it's configured correctly). > > something like: > > echo "Don't forget the doctor's appointment" | mailx -s "Reminder" > user@domain > > mailx will hand it to ssmtp and ssmtp just takes the message coming from > mailx and forwards it to the appropriate MTA that is configured (in > /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf) for delivery to the user(s).
rsteff@moonguide:~$ echo "This is a test." | mailx -s "Testing" [email protected] send-mail: 550 5.1.0 <rsteff@[email protected]> invalid address Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 rsteff@moonguide:~$ > mailx should NOT require root/sudo. Neither should ssmtp (it's just > running as a background "service" (kinda) and takes what it receives from > mailx and forwards it to the MTA. I hope that's clearer. Okay. No sudo required from the command line for mailx or ssmtp. But something wrong with the address in mailx. I tried the -d option in mailx, which gives more information and got this: rsteff@moonguide:~$ echo "This is a test." | mailx -d -s "Testing" [email protected] user = rsteff, homedir = /home/rsteff Sendmail arguments: "send-mail" "-i" "--" "[email protected]" Nothing else happened. No error message, but no mail sent, either. I tried verbose mode and got this: rsteff@moonguide:~$ echo "This is a test." | mailx -v -s "Testing" [email protected] [<-] 220 omta04.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net comcast ESMTP server ready [->] EHLO [email protected] [<-] 250 OK [->] STARTTLS [<-] 220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS [->] EHLO [email protected] [<-] 250 OK [->] AUTH LOGIN [<-] 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6 [->] cnN0ZWZmQGNvbWNhc3QubmV0 [<-] 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6 [<-] 235 2.7.0 ... Authentication succeeded [->] MAIL FROM:<rsteff@[email protected]> [<-] 550 5.1.0 <rsteff@[email protected]> invalid address send-mail: 550 5.1.0 <rsteff@[email protected]> invalid address Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 How do I tell mailx to just use [email protected], and not prefix it with rsteff@? -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
