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Date:      Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:30:24 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        "Kelly Jones" <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unix program that sends email directly using MX record
Message-ID:  <20081122163024.fa422346.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <26face530811221316y5be5bf40ra5c38f389f554ca1@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <26face530811221316y5be5bf40ra5c38f389f554ca1@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:16:56 -0700
"Kelly Jones" <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com> wrote:

> What Unix program sends email directly, using the MX record of the
> recipient, instead of using sendmail or an installed MTA?
> 
> I realize I could tweak sendmail.cf/etc to do this, but that's not
> working in my (fairly unusual) special situation.
> 
> I also realize that sending email directly is normally "bad", but I'm
> testing something.

See if ssmtp in ports does what you need.

If that's still not direct enough, there's always telnet.  SMTP conversations
aren't really that difficult to simulate.

-Bill



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