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Subject: Re: Some questions on postfix, SUMMARY
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 03:02:16 CST

On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:34:24AM +0100, Emmanuel Courcelle wrote:

> I switched yesterday the mail hub to postfix (*** VERY *** fine...), BUT
> the other unix boxes still run sendmail (for now).
>
> In fact the mail is used on those machines mainly for maintenance
> (cron jobs, sending some file with "mail userfoo.fr < file", a.s.o.).
>
> So, I do not really need a complete mail system... just a mail client
> working in command line would be perfect. Something as easy to use as
> mail or mailx, but something with would ONLY connect to the smtp server
> on the mail hub to send the mail,
> so that we would not have to install and configure the whole postfix
> installation on every machine.

You don't need to. Change sendmail's configuration to use the Postfix box as
SMARTHOST. This way you can still use sendmail on those boxes and be able to
send mail anywhere. Remember that those boxes must belong to mynetworks of
the Postfix box.

C'est tout.

> And... last but not least, it would still be nicer if it could attach
> files (so we could ALSO send binary files, not only ascii files).

Try mutt (www.mutt.org), Pine or (for command line) mpack/munpack. 

-- 
Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de> www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
   --Ken Olson, President of DEC, World Future Society Convention, 1977