Fedora 27 and Outgoing Email

Alex Sage

What packages need to be install, and what configuration is needed?

Just want to email out a log file.

DustinB3403

Doesn't Fedora have built-in mail provider?

Alex Sage

@dustinb3403 I don't know, that's why I asked

EddieJennings

There's probably a better way, but you could install Postfix.

scottalanmiller

Works by default. Nothing is needed.

DustinB3403

I think it has mailx installed by default

scottalanmiller

@eddiejennings said in Fedora 27 and Outgoing Email:

There's probably a better way, but you could install Postfix.

That should be there by default, at least in most cases.

scottalanmiller

@dustinb3403 said in Fedora 27 and Outgoing Email:

I think it has mailx installed by default

mailx is the client, not the mailer. But most people actually want to use this and don't realize it and so don't ask what they mean. So chances are, he wants to use mailx but technically he is set to send emails without it.

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said in Fedora 27 and Outgoing Email:

Just want to email out a log file.

From what application?

Alex Sage

@scottalanmiller bash script, via command line is fine.

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said in Fedora 27 and Outgoing Email:

@scottalanmiller bash script, via command line is fine.

If you want to do it from BASH, you need to add a command to send. mailx is the one to use.

dnf install mailx

Alex Sage

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 27 and Outgoing Email:

If you want to do it from BASH, you need to add a command to send. mailx is the one to use.

Null message body; hope that's ok
/usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
"/root/dead.letter" 9/243
. . . message not sent.

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said in Fedora 27 and Outgoing Email:

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 27 and Outgoing Email:

If you want to do it from BASH, you need to add a command to send. mailx is the one to use.

Null message body; hope that's ok
/usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
"/root/dead.letter" 9/243
. . . message not sent.

Is there really no MTA by default? Is this one of Jared's minimal installs instead of server? That might do it.

dnf install postfix
systemctl start postfix
systemctl enable postfix

Alex Sage

@scottalanmiller postfix installed, running and enabled.

The command just hangs:

mail -s "Test" aaronstuder@gmail.com

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said in Fedora 27 and Outgoing Email:

@scottalanmiller postfix installed, running and enabled.

The command just hangs:
mail -s "Test" aaronstuder@gmail.com

It's not hung, it's waiting for the body of the email. Try this...

mail -s "Test" aaronstuder@gmail.com < /etc/passwd

Alex Sage

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 27 and Outgoing Email:

mail -s "Test" aaronstuder@gmail.com < /etc/passwd

Bingo, Gmail thinks it's spam, but that makes since

Alex Sage

@scottalanmiller so do I even need postfix?

DustinB3403

@aaronstuder said in Fedora 27 and Outgoing Email:

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 27 and Outgoing Email:

mail -s "Test" aaronstuder@gmail.com < /etc/passwd

Bingo, Gmail thinks it's spam, but that makes ~~since~~ sense

Ftfy

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said in Fedora 27 and Outgoing Email:

@scottalanmiller so do I even need postfix?

Yes, mailx is only a client, it's telling Postfix to send it. if you wanted to send through Postfix by hand, you could.

EddieJennings

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora 27 and Outgoing Email:

@aaronstuder said in Fedora 27 and Outgoing Email:

@scottalanmiller so do I even need postfix?

Yes, mailx is only a client, it's telling Postfix to send it. if you wanted to send through Postfix by hand, you could.

Fun = telnet to postfix and send E-mail that way