Re: Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only

Chuck, I'd prefer to have the script handle the
mailing so I can test the script (with email send)
manually, independent of cron.

Still looking for specifics on setting this up and a
bourne shell script example that sends an email.
Thanks!

--- Chuck Swiger <cswiger@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Aug 30, 2007, at 3:12 PM, L Goodwin wrote:
I wrote a shell script that backs up the file
server.
I would like to modify this script to email a
notification message to a public email address.

Use cron, which will automatically email out the
results of your
script to any email address you like.

Seems like sendmail should do the job nicely, but
I've never set it
up before.

What specific steps (including network-specific)
need
to be performed to get sendmail working for
outgoing
mail only in a secure manner?

Please see the fine Handbook:



http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html

Although, it is entirely reasonable to consider
using Postfix instead.

--
-Chuck






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