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   Message 86,064 of 87,272   
   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   
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