Rick Moen wrote:
> Gary Dale <garydale@rogers.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Unfortunately, I don't have an MTA. I need to send an e-mail to a remote
>>address through an SMTP server that requires authentication (i.e. your
>>typical SOHO or home setup). From a GUI I can configure Thunderbird or
>>whatever without any problems and it works. However, I have some scripts
>>that need to send out Internet e-mail notices from a server without a
>>GUI and without user intervention.
>>
>>Is there a good howto on the subject anywhere?
>
>
> Why don't you make it easy on yourself and pick/install a nullmailer.
> See: "Nullmailers" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Mail/
>

The nullmailers all seem to lack one essential feature. They don't seem
to have a method of authenticating to the smtp server. From the limited
documentation and from playing around with two of them, they seem to
assume that your smtp server is either open or gets its authentication
information locally.

Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who doesn't authenticate outside of
the "departmental mailhub" that sSMTP talks about.

This puts me back at trying to configure Exim4 to handle the hand-off. :(