[LBo] I need your recomendation on a good MUA.

[André Jee]

Stefan,

I'm sure this would have worked, unfortunately this was not approved by 
my superior.

So I have installed mail binary. I don't have a local MTA so I depend on 
an external SMTP gateway.
At first I thought I just could specify it in my mail syntax. After 
reading man mail I could not find any syntax where I could specify it.
So I looked for configuration files to mail, but I could not find any. 
Is this to be configured in a Debian system file?
Also my /var/log/mail* logs are empty. That makes sense, it's not 
working yet, at all :-)

I believe that I make it to hard for myself. There are probably easier 
way to approach it. The fact is that my objective is to use mail.
Just to clarify what I'm doing here. When my backup software (BackupEDGE 
02.01.05) have done a backup it can notify specified
users via e-mail. You can choose whatever external syntax you want (I 
want to use mail). BackupEDGE uses |/usr/bin/mail -s %S %n  as default.
So I'm stuck now because I cant find where to specify the SMTP gateway. 
I must let mail know which server to use.

Pointers?


-------- Original Message  --------
From: Stefan Waidele <Stefan at Waidele.info>
To: qna at linuxbasics.org
Subject: Re:[LBo] I need your recomendation on a good MUA.
Date: Fri Jan 05 2007 10:38:05 GMT+0100 (Romance Standard Time)
> André Jee schrieb:
>> [...]
>> On our old servers we use
>> sendmail/exim with a '|/bin/mail -s %S %n' syntax.
>>
>> I want to keep my new test system as clean as possible [...]
>> As I don't want a MTA installed,
>
> If you don't mind PERL being installed on the machine (it probably 
> already is on there), you could use something like the script provided 
> at 
> http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/smtp/index.xp?show_selected=1&msgid=31
>
> The script itself is here:
> http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/smtp/smtp-client.pl
>
> Your command then would be something like:
> "| /path/to/smtp-client.pl --host=your.smtp.host 
> --from=YourFriendlyBackupServer --to=%n "
>
> From a quick glance I did not see if/how the subject line can be set.
>
> Is this what you are looking for?
>
> Stefan
>