fetchmail on Solaris

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

Couple different options.  You could continue to use sendmail to send
the mail outgoing. Or you could use msmtp
http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/

Either way, to send mail out you're going to need something.  sendmail
wouldn't need to be listening on a external port to send mail out, so
it wouldn't be a security issue to leave it running. =)

msmtp is pretty easy to use, and could just be added to the script.
Once you build the msmtp conf file, you basically use it like you
would 'mail' but msmtp will actually connect to the smtpd of your
choice, and use ssl, or login etc.

-miah

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 04:06:33PM -0500, David Kramer wrote:
> I've done consulting for this one company, part of which entailed 
> maintaining an email-based transaction processing system.  Emails come in, 
> sendmail pipes it through the perl script that enacts the transactions and 
> pemail sends a response email.
> 
> They don't have any UNIX geeks there, and want to move away from sendmail.  
> They are going to use http://www.webmail.us for their email hosting, and 
> want to figure out how to make the script work with it.
> 
> My first guess is that we should install fetchmail on the Solaris box.  
> Looks to me like I can use the -m option to have fetchmail pipe the 
> mail to the script exactly as it exists now.  If I can do that I don't 
> think I need sendmail at all.  Is that the case?
> 
> If I tried to do this, though, wouldn't I still need sendmail so the 
> outgoing mail to the wemail.us server?
> 
> My plan B, then, would be to use fetchmail to get the mail from webmail.us 
> and forward the email to the local sendmail, which will then do the same 
> exact voodoo that it do now.  Outgoing I need to tell sendmail to send to 
> webmail.us, I guess.  That's the SmartHost feature, right?
> 
> Thanks, and sorry for rambling a little.  I'm still a little fuzzy on my 
> options.
> 
> 
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