mail

msmtp

/etc/msmtprc defaults maildomain example.net syslog LOG_MAIL aliases /etc/aliases account default host mail.example.net port 587 from srv7@example.net auth on user user@example.net password ******** tls on tls_starttls on #tls_certcheck off tls_fingerprint DB:A0:2A:07:00:F9:E3:23:7D:07:E7:52:3C:95:9D:E6:7E:12:54:3F Your alias file # /etc/aliases default: me@example.net A php script to send mail #!/usr/bin/php <?php define('TAB',"\t"); $user = $_SERVER['LOGNAME']; $host = exec("hostname -f"); $from = $user.'@'.$host; $to = 'sweety@example.net'; $subject = 'Testing msmtp'; $message = 'hello from '. $host; $headers = 'From: '.

Send mail with sendmail

#!/bin/bash SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail RECIPIENT=tosomeone@example.com FROM=me@example.com cat <<EOF | $SENDMAIL -t ${RECIPIENT} From: ${FROM} To: ${RECIPIENT} Subject: testmail some test text as body of the email. EOF

msmtp install, config and test

Why have more then one mail server? Or why even have a mail server at all, if you can use gmail? Well there are many reasons to have at leased one mail server, but having one on each server doesn’t make sense at all. I tried both ssmtp and msmtp, and decided on msmtp. msmtp is an SMTP client. In the default mode, it transmits a mail to an SMTP server, which takes care of further delivery.