light weight smtp client for esx 3.0/3.5?

[dwchan]

Can anyone recommend a light weight smtp client (i.e like blat for windows) that can be easily install inside vmware for simple email notification. In short, we are finalize our scripted esx install. everything is work fine, but would like to be notify when everything is completed. Since the update/patch can take up to 40 minutes in some case, this will be really handy if i can have the server send a simple crafted smtp email out when esxupdate script is completed

[mcowger]

Look for sendEmail.pl

--Matt

[dwchan]

Where is that located at? is it part of ESX 3.# install? does it come with syntax/manual?

[Texiwill]

Hello,

sendEmail.pl is just a mail client that will send to through an external mailserver. This in effect replaces /usr/bin/sendmail. A web search can show tons of sendEmail.pl clients for their specific uses. I.e to send to a single user, alias or anything else at a remote site. There is also a version on the tools section of the forum. I think if you search the forum you will find it.

If the tool you want to use already calls sendmail, then you can also install the RHEL3-U6 version but DO NOT enable the server. That will also work. Not lightweight but doable.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education. As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

[wila]

Hi,

http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/wila/2007/12/12/mail-perl-script

hope it helps,

Wil

[OM4EVER]

Hello. In line with the question asked above, I would like to write some sort of script or have some functionality either built-in to VC where users will get notified via email when a snapshot has been done/completed successfully on a VM. I have a lot of scheduled snapshots but would also like to add that funcitonality to the task. Any ideas how we can achieve that?

Thanks

[azn2kew]

Here is a script from you can send mail within Service Console using SendMail.

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[depping]

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/01/23/howto-sending-html-email-from-the-service-console/

Duncan

My virtualisation blog:

[OM4EVER]

Thanks. I'll check it out