sending alert mail with external smtp server

[Ercan Deger]

Hello,

how can I send alert email using external smtp server with authentication from terminal? any appilcation?

Thanks,

 

[Lamia]

You could use ssmtp as a drop-in replacement for sendmail. It does the job pretty well.

 

[sko]

+1 for mail/ssmtp
Using it on almost all of my systems for that purpose.