SOLVED CLI mail clientmailx

[g8jvm]

Hi All
Is there any further info on using mailx, the man page is not very clear, wikis blogs etc ( easy to understand )
Thanks

[rhester72]

It's the ages-old standard mail client.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

Rodney

[g8jvm]

Hi
something very simple, send me an e-mail when motion gets triggered, so as simple as possible from CLI
Thanks

[rhester72]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
echo "hello world" | mail -s "test subject" you@youraddress.com
')

Rodney

[g8jvm]

Thats what I like something nice and simple,
Does the remote smtp server need setting up ? is that with sendmail ?
many thanks

[rhester72]

If you have mailx, I'm assuming you have a local MTA of some sort (properly configured to relay to your real upstream SMTP server), yes. You can't very well mail without one (well, you *can*, but then you're talking about something more like msmtp and direct-relay).

Rodney

[g8jvm]

Hi Rodney
I haven't got an MTA installed yet., there is only the perl sendmail , sendmail isn't on the package list.
It only needs to be a simple MTA as it shouldn't get used, apart from testing, or If my son holds a party while I'm away.
What would you recommend ?
Thanks

[rhester72]

You'll need some sort of mta - msmtp is probably the lightest weight solution (assuming you're relaying upstream to something like Gmail or an ISP mail provider).

msmtp/sendmail is the MTA component, mailx is the userspace component that does all the formatting and such for you. You need both working for this to function properly.

Rodney

[g8jvm]

Ok
msmtp loaded and I think I have it configured for my ISP, I hope it will accept on port 25, I normally use starttls on port 587.
It accepts a telnet connection so may be.
looking for a config file for mail on the system, all I can find is /etc/mailrc
In that file I can see nowhere for it to use send mail, but
it wants to use sendmail


I tried this :-
[root@Pogopig ~]# echo "hello world" | mailx -s "test subject" richard@g8jvm.info|msmtp
msmtp: no recipients found
[root@Pogopig ~]# /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
. . . message not sent.
I also tried mail -s as well, same results

/root/.msmtprc :-

root@Pogopig ~]# cat .msmtprc
# Example for a user configuration file

# Set default values for all following accounts.
defaults
tls on
tls_trust_file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
logfile ~/.msmtp.log

# A 1and1 service
account 1and1.co.uk
host auth.smtp.1and1.co.uk
from richard@g8jvm.info
auth on
user richard@g8jvm.info
password xxxxxxxxxxxx

# Set a default account
account default : 1and1.co.uk



Strange?

[rhester72]

Try:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
echo "hello world" | mailx -s "test subject" richard@g8jvm.info|msmtp -t
')

If that works, you can just link sendmail to the msmtp binary and mailx should "automagically" use it without needing to include msmtp in the pipe.

Rodney