====== Mail ======

You can use Synchronet as your native UNIX mail system so that UNIX system components (e.g. crond, apt, security) will send e-mail notifications to the system administrator (you) as user #1 on your BBS using your Synchronet mail system.

===== Install =====

Create the following symbolic links to the Synchronet [[module:sendmail]] script:

  $ ls -l /usr/sbin/*mail
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    26 Mar  5 23:03 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /sbbs/exec/sendmail.js
  $ ls -l /usr/bin/mail*
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    37 Feb 13 15:44 /usr/bin/mail -> /sbbs/exec/sendmail.js
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    37 Feb 13 15:44 /usr/bin/mailx -> /sbbs/exec/sendmail.js

==== Linux ====

These symlinks may be installed automatically (and double-redirected via ''/etc/alternatives/*'' symlinks) using the Linux ''update-alternatives'' utility:
  $ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/mailx mailx /sbbs/exec/sendmail.js 100 --slave /usr/bin/mail mail /sbbs/exec/sendmail.js --slave /usr/sbin/sendmail sendmail /sbbs/exec/sendmail.js

The Synchronet [[module:sendmail]] script contains a "shebang" that will invoke ''[[dir:exec]]/[[util:jsexec]]'' to execute ''sendmail.js''. In turn, ''sendmail.js'' will determine its personality (e.g. which command-line arguments it will recognize: sendmail or mail/mailx) based on which symlink was used to invoke it.

===== See Also =====
  * [[:install:nix:|install:nix index]]