Topic: E-mail An Outside Address When Not Configed As E-Mail Server

[rf131]

Hi There,

I have a situation where I'm off-site, and need to be notified with e-mail when I have problems (backup failure, RAID, etc.).

The server I am building will not have e-mail set up (they go directly to the ISP with POP3).

I know there is a Forwarding address for administrative notices and a place for entering the ISP SMTP server.  When I enter this information I'm still not sure I have it set up right since I don't know a straightforward way to force an administrative notice e-mail to test the configuration.

Does it make sense to consider a test button in the panel, or is it just my ignorance here?  Perhaps someone can reply with a command-line directive to perform the test?  If so, pardon my oversight, and I would recommend a quick mention in the doc that you can "Test this functionality by..."

TIA,
Kevin

[raem]

rf131

login to the server using webmail and send a message to admin@yourdomain

[NomadOfNorad]

Hmmmmm... What happens if, from the shell, you type

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echo "test" | mail -s "test" emailaddressand hit enter?