mailx

[glawson]

Is there any way to tell mailx to ignore an email server configured in sendmail.cf or in /etc/hosts and just do a DNS lookup? I don't see anything in any docs for a flag or anything to do that.

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[Andrew Beals]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM, glawson <gla...@rhcl.org> wrote:

Is there any way to tell mailx to ignore an email server configured in sendmail.cf or in /etc/hosts and just do a DNS lookup? I don't see anything in any docs for a flag or anything to do that.

There isn't because it simply starts a pipe to sendmail and feeds the message into it.
 

[David Nicol]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Andrew Beals <andrew...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there any way to tell mailx to ignore an email server configured in
>> sendmail.cf or in /etc/hosts and just do a DNS lookup? I don't see anything
>> in any docs for a flag or anything to do that.

there is a "sendmail" option so you can tell mailx what sendmail to run. YMMV.

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