Sending External Email From Linux

[bradlea7]

Hi,

I come from more of a programming background but have been giving the task of sending bakup results from a linux box in an email to external email addresses, I have spent days looking trough google for info but cant seem to find anything simple, I have looked at postfix but because I dont understand networks, hosts, nameservers etc I am a bit stuck.

Would be grateful if someone could send me a few pointers of what I need to do to allow mail get sent from the linux box to external mail address. I have outlook connected to an exhange server on windows and I can ping the linux box from my windows command so surely it cant be to much involved.

[GNU-Fan]

I have my server sending logfiles to me with the
sendEmail program over SMTP.
Software :: SendEmail - Send email with this free command line email client

It's easier than setting up my own mailserver.

[bradlea7]

Thanks, can you give me an example of a simple commnad using this, if I try the telent exchange server 25 it doesnt recognise my from address. Is there a list of basic trouble shooting linux commands i could run first which will give me an idea if what i need to do?

[GNU-Fan]

Generally, "man programname" gives you a short help for any program.

I call the sendMail program this way

sendEmail -xu myfromemail@sender.account -xp accountpassword -v -f "The sender's name"
-s smtp.sender.account -t towhom@themail.goes -u "The mail's subject"

[bradlea7]

How do I find what my "myfromemail@sender.account" is? when I try the telnet 25 command it seems to recognise the server host but not a from mail name.

[GNU-Fan]

It is an email account you have elsewhere. When you write email to somebody from your desktop, which SMTP you connect to?