sending eMail on comand line (&logwatch) - Ubuntu 6.06

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Hiya,

I've a zimbra 4.5 NE installation on Ubuntu 6.06 Server.

PROBLEM: Send email from local server via command line:
My problem is following, that I'm not able to send eMails on CLI or via logwatch and always got the message "sendmail: invalid option -- s"


1) Installed the
• MTA Dummy Package (dpkg -i mta-dummy_1.0_all.deb)
to resolve mailer dependencies
• Logwatch (apt-get install logwatch)

Recognized that zimbra places the postfix-sendmail compatibility binary in
/opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.9/sbin/sendmail
and proceeded.

Config [vi /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf] to
mailer = /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.9/sbin/sendmail
I also tried "sendmail -t" and many other possibilities

2) echo "test" | /opt/zimbra/postfix-2.2.9/sbin/sendmail -s test mymail@de.mail.com
sendmail: invalid option -- s
sendmail: fatal: usage: sendmail [options]

3) logwatch
sendmail: invalid option -- s
sendmail: fatal: usage: sendmail [options]

Any idea or clue why it's not working?

Cheers
Christian

* As reference I checked:
Sending email locally
Logwatch stops sending mail?
[SOLVED] Logwatch & Debian
Multi-server and Logwatch
...

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SOLUTION:
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1) MTA Dummy Package

"To install mailx without additional postfix" use "mta-dummy" package
e.g.
• wget http://ubuntu.lnix.net/misc/mta-dumm...my_1.0_all.deb
• dpkg -i mta-dummy_1.0_all.deb

Please check my further posts or google for it. It allows installing packages by resolve mailer dependencies.

2) Use apt-get to install the 'mailx' package.

3) Edit /etc/mail.rc to add the following:
set sendmail=/opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/sendmail

4) ) Install Logwatch
• apt-get install logwatch

Tested mail by CLI & logwatch - OK!

Big THANKS for the great support of Sean Gallagher from Zimbra Network Support Team

RESOLVED, everything works fine.

Cheers
Christian