I need an email server, or something

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 10/19/07, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> I support Linux servers scattered hither and yon. I'd like for them to
> send me various emails when bad things happen or to report on this or that.
>
> Problem is, many of them are served by ISPs whose smtp server requires
> authentication. I often do not have access to the login credentials. I
> don't want to store login credentials for my own email server on these
> servers owned by clients (and not under my physical control).
> Additionally, lots of these ISPs block outbound port 25.
>
> Any ideas on how I can get my servers to send me things?
>
> Is there an email server somewhere I can use?
>
> Surely I'm not the first to bump up against this.

Maybe don't use email?  Can you do snmp or ssh instead?

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