email commad line

tinyman · #1 3rd December 2006, 01:23 AM

Hello

I need to setup a simple email program so I can able to send system alert to yahoo account. I search but there is alot info on sendmail, postfix, procmail. These are email server setup that I don't need. And that big book Fedora Bibble does not help either.

Thank

jim · #2 3rd December 2006, 02:15 AM

from the terminal

mail you@server.com -s some subject
enter
type message CNTL D twice to send

tinyman · #3 3rd December 2006, 02:51 AM

how do I setup my pop account

Pazuzu · #4 3rd December 2006, 03:00 AM

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Originally Posted by tinyman

how do I setup my pop account

POP for what?

Quote:

Originally Posted by tinyman

I need to setup a simple email program so I can able to send system alert to yahoo account.

you don't need POP for sending mail.. only smtp. As Jim stated,

Code:

mail you@yahoo.com -s "system alert"

tinyman · #5 3rd December 2006, 03:28 AM

do I set up smtp with sendmail.cf ? could you point me in the right direction

tinyman · #6 3rd December 2006, 03:58 AM

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Originally Posted by tinyman

do I set up smtp with sendmail.cf ? could you point me in the right direction

let me explain further, I have an email account an ISP. There is no way I can email to yahoo acount without being flag as a relay. Is it possible to set up an ISP account

Pazuzu · #7 3rd December 2006, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by tinyman

let me explain further, I have an email account an ISP. There is no way I can email to yahoo acount without being flag as a relay. Is it possible to set up an ISP account

sure, you can configure sendmail to use your ISPs smtp server. Google a bit for "DS" and "sendmail smart host". The DS directive, if memory serves, is the line you'll modify in your sendmail configuration file. I think it'll be something like

Code:

DSsmtp.yourisp.com

pdb · #8 3rd December 2006, 06:52 AM

On my machine, these are the relevant lines in sendmail.mc:

Code:

dnl #
dnl # Uncomment and edit the following line if your outgoing mail needs to
dnl # be sent out through an external mail server:
dnl #
define(`SMART_HOST',`my.isp.net')dnl

After editing sendmail.mc, run make in the /etc/mail directory and then restart your mail server to make the changes take effect.

tinyman · #9 3rd December 2006, 07:30 AM

thank you for quick response. But what about user authentification. They required username and password to login.
One more thing, I read sendmail ver 8.13 by default do not allow relay so I assume I don't to modify /etc/mail/access any further right ? Below is the default config for /etc/mail/access

Connect:localhost.localdomain RELAY
Connect:localhost RELAY
Connect:127.0.0.1 RELAY