[arch-general] smtp daemon

[Baho Utot]

Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Baho Utot <baho-utot at columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Ah yeah, if you're just forwarding mail to an existing mail server,
> you shouldn't need daemons or anything - there's a lot of mail
> forwarders out there: nbsmtp, msmtp, ...
>   
Just built msmtp and installed.........

added a ~/.mailrc  and a global config and it works pretty much put of 
the box.

$ sudo /usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/sda | mail -s smartctl-sda-desktop 
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smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Caviar SE family
Device Model:     WDC WD5000AAKB-00H8A0
Serial Number:    WD-WCASZ0032463
Firmware Version: 05.04E05
User Capacity:    500,107,862,016 bytes
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   8
ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:    Wed Mar  4 17:19:41 2009 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

etc.

Thanks everyone!