Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

[John Covici]

On Thu, 02 Apr 2020 07:03:01 -0400,
Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:20 AM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
>
> > On 2020-04-01 03:51, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
> >
> > > why can't `mail` send emails? below is some info.
> >
> > Normally the mail program works by execing /usr/sbin/sendmail to to the
> > hard part :-P Do you have it? It doesn't have to be the "real"
> > sendmail - any MTA program you install usually makes a symlink from
> > /usr/sbin/sendmail to itself.
>
> i got sendmail around.  but didn't do any configurations.
>
> what's the minimum configuration to do?  i'm really not
> planning anything ultra-professional.  i hope it to send
> an email the shameless style (just send an smtp message
> to the smtp server where my email is hosted)
>
>

Try ssmtp package, I think it will do what you want.

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