Hi,

Majority of the system daemons running on server machines require a
mail/sendmail command to report their status information. For this
purpose, I needed to setup a relay-only MTA. But unfortunately, none of
esmtp, msmtp, ssmtp programs accept `-s' (subject) parameter. I can roll
my own (possibly buggy) wrapper script around those agents but I just
wanted to learn if there is any realy-only MTA available in Debian
repositories that can handle `-s' parameter.


Regards.


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On Monday 2009 January 05 03:17:59 Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> Majority of the system daemons running on server machines require a
> mail/sendmail command to report their status information. For this
> purpose, I needed to setup a relay-only MTA. But unfortunately, none of
> esmtp, msmtp, ssmtp programs accept `-s' (subject) parameter. I can roll
> my own (possibly buggy) wrapper script around those agents but I just
> wanted to learn if there is any realy-only MTA available in Debian
> repositories that can handle `-s' parameter.

Use the mailx package to provide /usr/bin/mail. It handles the "-s <Subject>"
option, and simply hands the message off to the local MTA, which may be
relay-only, if desired.

My /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/sendmail are provided by
exim4-daemon-heavy, but neither accept the -s parameter. They will accept a
complete mail on stdin if recipients are specified, but that's not all.
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