[CLUE-Tech] mail from a box without a mail server

[Keith Hellman]

On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 05:46:14PM +0000, Jason S. Friedman wrote:
> I have a firewall machine and another machine.  I don't want to run a mail or 
> pop server on the firewall machine if I can help it, for various reasons.
> 
> I have a number of cron jobs running on the firewall machine.  I want to send 
> the output of those jobs to my email box on the other machine.  How?
> _______________________________________________

Jason:  I'm not a mail guru but I'm pretty sure you don't HAVE to have a
mail server running to SEND mail.  I've sent mail via telnet before (
although only for debugging purposes).  Whenever I want to mail some
thing directly from a program I use the /bin/mail command.

HTH