From: noemail@please.net   
      
   On Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:53:57 -0000 (UTC), Harold Johanssen wrote:   
      
   > I have a system running 15.0 with Internet access. Every so often this   
   > system must send terse email notifications, as invoked from a cron job.   
   > It is not going to receive any emails.   
   >   
   > 	Any suggestions on how to do this without having to get sendmail   
   > configured and running? This would amount to using an email client that   
   > does not require a local sendmail, like e.g. Thunderbird. This is of   
   > course not a an option: I need something that is command-line oriented   
   > and lightweight.   
      
   	Well, as it turns out to be the case spookily often, I figured it   
   out minutes after I posted this. In case anybody might be interested:   
      
   	I created a file named .mailrc in the home directory for the user   
   who is going to be sending the emails, with the following contents in   
   this file:   
      
   # Testing syntax:   
   # echo "Testing, Testing, Testing" | mailx -s "My test..."   
   #                             address@whatever.com   
      
   # Use v15.0 compatibility mode   
   set v15-compat   
      
   # See the whole process, especially for troubleshooting:   
   set verbose   
      
   # Essential setting: select allowed character sets   
   set sendcharsets=utf-8,iso-8859-1   
   # and reply in the same charset used by sender:   
   set reply-in-same-charset   
      
   # Default directory where we act in (relative to $HOME)   
   set folder=mail   
      
   # You actual address to reply to:   
   set from="myname@myaddress.com"   
      
   # Request strict TLS transport layer security checks   
      
   # set tls-verify=strict   
   # set tls-ca-file=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt   
   # set tls-ca-no-defaults   
      
   # Alternative, don't do SMTP server certificate verification   
      
   set tls-verify=ignore   
   set smtp-use-starttls   
   set smtp-auth=login   
      
   # When sending messages, wait until the Mail-Transfer-Agent finishes.   
   # Only like this you will be able to see errors reported through the   
   # exit status of the MTA (including the built-in SMTP one)!   
   set sendwait   
      
   # And of course put your own username and password here in the obvious   
   # places:   
      
   set mta=smtps://USERNAME:PASSWORD@SMTP.SERVER:465   
      
      
   	With this, a simple invocation as mentioned at the top of the   
   file sends the email as expected. In my case, I disable TLS security   
   checks because I know what the SMTP server that will be connecting to is,   
   and that's the only server that I will be using here. All this suffices   
   to fulfill my needs.   
      
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