I just needed the sendmail cli interface to work for things like bts or the occasional sending of an email.
msmtp seems like a good solution.
Heres what I did to get it functional
install mtsmtp-mta
sudo apt-get install msmtp-mta
configure client
I have only configured per-user, not site-wide. (so only my user can send mail, not 'root' or others). You can do that, I just haven't.
See the .msmtprc file below.
| # https://marlam.de/msmtp/msmtp.html#A-user-configuration-file | |
| # this is my ~/.msmtprc | |
| defaults | |
| port 587 | |
| tls on | |
| account primary | |
| # https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215612887-Email-client-protocols-and-port-numbers | |
| # Host name of the SMTP server | |
| host smtp.dreamhost.com | |
| # Envelope-from address | |
| from Scott Moser <me@my-email.net> | |
| # Authentication. The password is plaintext here. I have a "relay only" account | |
| # that can send mail and has a tiny receive quota. You can send mail from | |
| # other addresses using that address | |
| auth on | |
| user relay@my-email.net | |
| password SECRET | |
| account default : primary |
| #!/bin/sh | |
| # just a simple test of using sendmail. | |
| # call it with: test-sendmail.sh [to [from]] | |
| to=${1:-me@my-email.net} | |
| from=${2:-} | |
| cmd=${CMD:-sendmail -vt} | |
| $cmd <<ENDEND | |
| To: ${to} | |
| Subject: Testing that sendmail works. sent $(date +%H:%M) | |
| ${from:+From: $from} | |
| I just wanted to see if this works. | |
| testing using msmtp | |
| Here I did not use the And here goes the e-mail body, test test test.. | |
| to=$to | |
| from=$from | |
| ENDEND |