Send mail to external SMTP server (linux command)

Question

Is there anyway to send an email to an external smtp server? my smtp server is XXX.XXX.XXX.66, listening on port 25

Is there a single command to send an email to this server a on port 25 without any setting up any cfg files?

When googling, the different commands like mailx or sendmail have very complicated parameters and many that i dont require like ssl etc.

Answer 1

If you are referring to sending email from within the database, you can

• set database parameter "smtp_out_server" to "XXX.XXX.XXX.66:25"
• then use the UTL_MAIL package to send emails

That is probably the quickest and easiest way to send simple emails.