[X-Unix] nevermind, figured it out ;) (re: simple commandline one-shot emailer)

[Peter Marreck]

After a thorough search of "man mail" and "man sendmail", these just 
seem to be ways to talk to a local mailserver and a local mailbox. 
There seems to be no way to specify a foreign mailserver, unless I am 
missing something here. I know that the local mailserver is supposed to 
relay to the domain of the recipient(s), but "mail <whatever>" never 
seemed to work for me, I've tried... The problem is, I don't think my 
internet provider will relay mail from mailservers on their home-user 
network- In fact, their TOS (conveniently changed after I became a 
customer 3 years ago, I use Optimum Online) specifically forbid running 
any kind of server, and they block port 80 incoming. (I told Apache to 
listen on 800 as a workaround.)

Not to mention, I got my girlfriend to switch to Linux on her thinkpad 
(she had a recent "ok, that's it!" moment when another round of spyware 
invaded her windows installation, hee hee), and until I get her to make 
the final jump to OS X ;) , I wanted a "phone-home" script that emails 
her IP on a semi-regular basis in the event the laptop is stolen. (I am 
also trying to do the same for my Powerbook.)

Incidentally, the free, temporary, throwaway email addresses available 
at mailinator.com are PERFECT as recipients for this purpose, so as not 
to clutter an inbox somewhere ;)

-Peter

On Feb 3, 2004, at 9:47 AM, Mac OS X Unix wrote:

> Just curious - If you don't mind my asking,  what is this script 
> intended
> for? Command line interfaces to the UNIX mail facility are already 
> there -
> but controlling the server and from fields are not usually something 
> that
> folks do, so you must have a unique reason.
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