On 4/30/25 12:51, Dan Ritter wrote:
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.
I guess I don't currently have an MTA.
eben@cerberus:~$ type sendmail
bash: type: sendmail: not found
1
eben@cerberus:~$
