From peidran@u.washington.edu Sun Nov 3 17:49:01 2002 Received: from mailscan2.cac.washington.edu (mailscan2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with SMTP id gA41n0n2016886 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 17:49:00 -0800 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan2.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Nov 03 17:48:59 2002 -0800 Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id gA41mxAA013616 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 17:48:59 -0800 Received: from mailscan-out3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan-out3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.18]) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.10) with SMTP id gA41mxva010603 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 17:48:59 -0800 Received: FROM mailhost2.u.washington.edu BY mailscan-out3.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Nov 03 17:48:58 2002 -0800 Received: from serv9.lly.org (serv9.ischool.washington.edu [128.208.102.209]) by mailhost2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.09) with ESMTP id gA41mweK006217 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 17:48:58 -0800 Received: from peidran by serv9.lly.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 188WMM-00025w-00 for ; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 17:48:58 -0800 Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 17:48:58 -0800 From: Peter Abrahamsen To: linux@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: sending mail Message-ID: <20021104014858.GB7930@serv9.lly.org> Reply-To: peidran@u.washington.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: Linux serv9 2.4.19 I believe there's a package called 'deliver' for this purpose. Check freshmeat. Peter On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 09:49:04PM -0800, C. Mills wrote: > I want to be able to send mail between the different users on my system. > For example I want cron to be able to send mail to the postmaster if there > is a problem. > I don't want to install qmail or sendmail or something like that. In fact > I don't see why any program that uses the network is necessary since > messages are going from one user to another on my system. > So in short I want to know the simplest way to let daemons send mail to > the postmaster. > I guess it would be an added bonus if I could have the postmasters > messages forwarded to my UW account. > Right now I have ssmtp and mailx on my system, but I am having a hard time > finding documentation for ssmtp and wondering if there is a simpler way. > Charlie > > -- Peter Abrahamsen University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Key 0x039922C0 : 259E 19C4 6FB4 1CA2 AC9D 75CE 8B5F 993D 0399 22C0 The killing of masses of human beings, we bewail with sorrow and grief; Victory in battle, we commemorate with mourning ritual. .