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anyone knows how can i configure mail command to send e-mails using external smtp server?? i think there should be a way to configure it using .mailrc file... any thoughts?
If you mean "/bin/mail" aka "mailx" then I haven't seen any way to configure the MTA address like you would expect in a CLI MUA, so you likely need to set the "smarthost" or equivalent directive in your MTA.
I dont prefer to modify my local sendmail daemon configuration.
Ah. If that's the only real reason why, then another option could be to run Sendmail on another port with another configuration (real easy). Note you're expected to use your providers MTA as "smarthost" and not just any random MTA you found: sane administrators would frown on that practice and prohibit it anyway.
the links that you sent are general guides about shell programing I didnt find anything helpful. also in my server I didnt find /dev/tcp/ path.
my question now is, if I configured sendmail smarthost feature to point to my external smtp server can I use the /bin/mail to send emails using the external smtp.
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