Eben King wrote: > I wrote a script around "ssmtp" which allowed me to fire off emails to > myself from cron. Short things, like "empty the litterbox" or whatever, > just a few words. Well, ssmtp is unmaintained and I can't get it to work > reliably with my email server (which is not gmail). What can I use to > replace it, or should I just find a way to get a real MUA to send a message > for me?
Every MTA, real or not, should supply a binary claiming to be sendmail which can be used for things like that. Exim and Postfix are very very common and can easily be run with set-and-forget configs for this kind of purpose. There are even smaller MTAs available. -dsr-
