I often send mail from the command line as follows

echo "Test2" | mail -s "testing2" me@my.domain

I'm on OS X panther, running Postfix. I have a fallback host and mail
is relayed after all the DNS choices time out.

Is it possible to specify the SMTP server in the command line? like

echo "Test2" | mail -s "testing2" -smtp smtp.domain.com me@my.domain

thus bypassing the DNS attempts.

I don't want to make this a permanent smart host cos this is a laptop
and I wanna keep it with the fallback host config.

Thanx

Roger

If the Postfix server has "allow_percent_hack = yes" in main.cf,
then you can probably use:

echo "Test2" | mail -s "testing2" me%my.domain@smtp.domain.com

Another possibility, for you only, is to add a line in the "transport" file:

me@my.domain smtp:[smtp.domain.com]

--
Greg




spacemancw wrote:
> I often send mail from the command line as follows
>
> echo "Test2" | mail -s "testing2" me@my.domain
>
> I'm on OS X panther, running Postfix. I have a fallback host and mail
> is relayed after all the DNS choices time out.
>
> Is it possible to specify the SMTP server in the command line? like
>
> echo "Test2" | mail -s "testing2" -smtp smtp.domain.com me@my.domain
>
> thus bypassing the DNS attempts.
>
> I don't want to make this a permanent smart host cos this is a laptop
> and I wanna keep it with the fallback host config.
>
> Thanx
>
> Roger
>