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|    Lew Pitcher to Harold Johanssen    |
|    Re: Sending mail without having to use s    |
|    17 Nov 22 16:30:39    |
      From: lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca              On Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:22:43 +0000, Harold Johanssen wrote:              > 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:              Well, spank my asterisk and call me Judy.              Thanks for that, I've learned something new today :-)              --       Lew Pitcher       "In Skills, We Trust"              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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