Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 09:02 -0700, Mark Schoonover wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the offer of help! Time is short. It's going to take me
>> about an hour to write up a SMTP email injection script - barring
>> any crazy interruptions. Trying to tackle sendmail will take much
>> longer, time I just don't have right now. Once the script is done,
>> I'll gladly post it to the list for others to use... I find it hard
>> to believe though that no one else has created a script like this.
>> Using Krugle didn't turn up much...
>
> The reason no one else has written that script is that the stock
> sendmail 'just works' as shipped for sending mail. And if you have
> something odd locally, it is usually a one-line edit in sendmail.mc to
> accommodate it.
Well, it may just work for some, but not for others - I'm sure I'm not alone
in sendmail not 'just working'. Using sendmail/postfix/qmail to send simple
email from cronjobs is like using a jackhammer to drive finishing nails. Why
go through all that hassle of sendmail and it's near daily security problems
for such a simple task? My network has mixed CentOS and Gentoo systems, with
the Gentoo systems not having sendmail installed. Installing sendmail on
those systems would take far more time then coming up with a simple script
to do what I need. Take into account running another binary, it's just
another service taking up resources that doesn't have to be used.
Mark
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