specifying smtp relay on commandline of mail cmd

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Hi all,

On my opensuse 11.4 box (although I assume the version is irrelevant), I’m trying to figure out how to do something with the mail command. We have multiple smtp relay servers and sometimes I have to test to verify that mail is bouncing off of them successfully. On my laptop, in my main.cf file for postfix, I’ve got the relay server listed. But to test multiple servers, I have to change the main.cf, restart postfix, send message, and then repeat for each test.

I’m trying to figure out a way to specify the smtp relay on the command line. I’ve been playing with the -S option which is supposed to allow variables and one of the variables in the man page is ‘smtp’. I’ve tried several different syntaxes but nothing seems to work.

The closest I’ve come is:
mail -S smtp 10.1.0.63 -s “test” user@email.com < main.cf

That syntax doesn’t give me an error but it still routes the message off the smtp server listed in main.cf which is not 10.1.0.63.

Anybody know how to accomplish this?

thanks

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Works for me, or at least tries to contact the non-existent server I specified:

$ mail -S smtp=foo.bar -s hello me < /etc/issue
Could not resolve host: foo.bar
"/home/me/dead.letter" 13/317
. . . message not sent.
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The important difference being you put in the ‘=value’ portion as
specified in the manpage. :slight_smile:

Good luck.

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That darn “=” sign will get you every time. It was too obvious! That was it.

mail -S smtp=serverIP -s “test from smtp #1” myemail@domain.com

So I can take this and put multiple mail commands in a short script to test mail routing from all our smtp servers with a single command.

Thanks for the second set of eyes!

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It should be pointed out that if you’re having problems with this working on any distro, make sure you have the heirloom-mailx implementation installed, not the GNU or BSD mail.

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On 2013-11-06 22:56, sean m wrote:
>
> It should be pointed out that if you’re having problems with this
> working on any distro, make sure you have the heirloom-mailx
> implementation installed, not the GNU or BSD mail.

No need. openSUSE replaced mail with mailx years ago.

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