[arch-general] smtp daemon

[Baho Utot]

Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>   
>> Johannes Held wrote:
>>     
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> What about postfix?
>>> A friend of mine installed and configured it just some days ago on our
>>> vserver
>>> (running ArchLinux).
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Thank you...
>>
>> That would work but I would like something smaller/lighter if I can find
>> something.
>>
>> I am only wanting to send an email from smartctl to the email server.  I
>> have it working on the mailserver and want to make it work on the desktop
>> level.
>>
>> Like this
>>
>> 00   00  *  *  * /usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/sda | mail -s smartctl-sda
>> root at localhost
>>     
>
> Aha, this is a little different then. For situations like this, I
> always configure msmtp to send via my google account. Could that be an
> option?
>   

Maybe I am looking at the wiki on msmtp now.

GNU Mailutils might work too the following is from GNU mailutils

mail.remote
The mail.remote is designed as a drop-in replacement for 
/usr/lib/sendmail to forward mail directly to an SMTP gateway.