I am totally lost with this

Slackware 10.1 workstation. No Sendmail installed.
Just using kmail and/or mozilla for ISP POP3 mail.
The problems is that I'd like to get Logwatch, Chkrootkit,
Slackupdate.sh and others to keep me informed via local mail.

So, how can this be setup? Is nail still able to do the job
maybe through proc mail? Is proc mail by it self up to the job?
What is a good efficient and secure way to go with this?


I would appreciate any suggestions
Thank you very much,

Marcus

Marcus Monserrate <marcusm7@ wrote:
> I am totally lost with this
>
> Slackware 10.1 workstation. No Sendmail installed.
> Just using kmail and/or mozilla for ISP POP3 mail.
> The problems is that I'd like to get Logwatch, Chkrootkit,
> Slackupdate.sh and others to keep me informed via local mail.
>
> So, how can this be setup? Is nail still able to do the job
> maybe through proc mail? Is proc mail by it self up to the job?
> What is a good efficient and secure way to go with this?

According to my experience, one cannot do w/o sendmail in such
a situation unless something else is installed (e.g., postfix
instead of sendmail+procmail). Notice though that both logwatch
and chkrootkit can just write their reports to a file, e.g.,
/home/marcus/logwatch_report.txt, instead of sending them via
e-mail.

Mikhail

Marcus Monserrate <marcusm7@ wrote:
> I am totally lost with this
>
> Slackware 10.1 workstation. No Sendmail installed.
> Just using kmail and/or mozilla for ISP POP3 mail.
> The problems is that I'd like to get Logwatch, Chkrootkit,
> Slackupdate.sh and others to keep me informed via local mail.
>
> So, how can this be setup? Is nail still able to do the job
> maybe through proc mail? Is proc mail by it self up to the job?
> What is a good efficient and secure way to go with this?
>
>
> I would appreciate any suggestions
> Thank you very much,
>
> Marcus

hi, you may use ssmtp , a simple sendmail 'emulator'
this package is the one if you just need to send mail.

maybe another way to 'send' local mail could be to write/append the
message in the mail spooler files ? (i'm not sure it's a good idea)

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sl