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Re: Use different smtp server with procmail

2010-11-22 11:36:16
At 09:04 2010-11-22, Raffaele wrote:
different host, but I do not want procmail to use the sendmail configuration of the system where is my account (*). I just need to say procmail to use a different smtp server. Do you know any way to do that?

You'd need to have a helper app that speaks SMTP, then change the $SENDMAIL and $SENDMAILFLAGS definitions to point to that. If you use certain external tools which themselves might generate an email, all bets are off.

There are a number of tools which can relay messages to a remote server - some (such as ssmtp) presume to be a daemon running on the local host, which may not work very well for you, though you could probably recompile with new config-file paths, etc - but it'd likely require a bit of work. There's the Perl Net::SMTP module, which would allow you to draft something up to act as a submission relay. smtpsend <http://freshmeat.net/projects/smtpsend/> is based on Net::SMTP, and is probably the most consise tool for what you want to accomplish.

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