Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 19:10:12 +0800 (JST) From: "Francis A. Vidal" <francis@usls.edu> To: Stefano Riva <sriva@alice.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sending mail without running SMTP service Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9902111909150.6157-100000@linux1.usls.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990211114537.009c1db0@relay.alice.it>
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On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Stefano Riva wrote: > At 18.11 11/02/99 +0800, you wrote: > >i have sendmail on my system (2.2.8-STABLE) and i want to send mail(s) > >without running sendmail in daemon mode. i used to send mail via the > >`mail' command and piping whatever i want it to send. how can i do this > >via sendmail? > > You can disable loading sendmail as a daemon (boot-time) in /etc/rc.conf. > Using sendmail to send a message is similar to using mail; for example > type "sendmail john@smith.com" and type in your message terminated by a dot > on an otherwise empty line. Piping/redirection of course works. "man > sendmail" for details on command-line arguments. it doesn't work :( i tried sending but i still get "Could not connect to SMTP server Connection refused". -- francis vidal university of st. la salle, bacolod city, philippines . . . . . . . PGP key available via e-mail / subject: get PGP key u s l s N E T tel. nos. (6334).435.2324 / 433.3526 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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