I want to send email from my system (from the command line) to outside addresses. *Without* and internal sendmail server...
Why? The default installation of Sendmail on recent versions of Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core Linux listen *only* on the loopback address (127.0.0.1) making it available *only* to programs running on your own box. This also provides for resending if the recipient is down, and other conveniences available only with an SMTP server... and provides no security risk since no services are offered to the outside.
If you want to shut down Sendmail, of course you can do so. But be aware that you are not generating a *security-related* benefit... just saving some memory and a few CPU cycles here and there.
I want it to send mail using my ISP's smtp server.
i.e, if I type:
mail me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
it should just send/forward the mail to that address, simple right?
I don't think the mail program allows for the use of external SMTP servers. However, you can check by entering the command "which mail"; this will give you the full path to the executable command you are running. Then do "rpm -qf /usr/bin/mailx" (or whatever the file is) and RPM will tell you what package contains that file. Then do "rpm -qd mailx" (or whatever the package is) and RPM will tell you what documentation is included with that package.
Finally, go read the documentation. Should take you three or four seconds to run through those commands.
I'm not using Pine/Xwindows or anything, just plain command line mail.
Note that the "mail" command is also a mailreader program *just like* Pine or Mutt. It will let you read or send mail, both interactively and via the command line. I believe you can do the same things with Pine or Mutt (and Mutt is the recommended alternative), plus you get additional capabilities like IMAP and remote SMTP servers just like you want. So perhaps, if you really get a benefit (in saving memory, or whatever) by shutting down Sendmail, then switching to Mutt may the best choice for you.
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