[plug] Sendmail in chroot

[Luke Dudney]

Carl Gherardi wrote:

>Hey all,
>
>I'm looking for some good documentation on chrooting sendmail under
>either linux or OpenBSD. I've found
>http://www.clapper.org/bmc/docs/sendmail-chroot.html to be pretty
>good, but it looks to be for creating a fully functional sendmail
>daemon for mail routing, whereas i'm only looking at it for sending
>status updates.
>
>Any have a handy link?
>
>Carl G
>  
>

Take a look at mini_sendmail. It's basically just a lightweight SMTP 
client, which you can configure to send via any SMTP server (such as 
that run by your ISP).

http://www.acme.com/software/mini_sendmail/

mini_sendmail reads its standard input up to an end-of-file and sends a 
copy of the message found there to all of the addresses listed. The 
message is sent by connecting to a local SMTP server. This means 
mini_sendmail can be used to send email from inside a chroot(2) area.

Cheers
Luke