Software to SEND log files only?

[Robert Bonomi]

> From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org  Wed Sep 22 00:32:52 2010
> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:33:20 +0100
> From: Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk>
> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com>
> Cc: Ed Flecko <edflecko at gmail.com>, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Software to SEND log files only?
>
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:16:35 -0500
> Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That's pretty silly article if you ask me, sendmail is setup to that
> > by default.
> > 
> > just add something like this to cron:
> > 
> > uuencode /path/to/logfile logfile | mail -s "logfile"
> > youremail at example.com
>
> Most mail servers will block sendmail's connections from a dynamic IP:
> the advantage to ssmtp is that it forwards mail to the ISP's server.

*ONE* line in the sendmail config file ("smarthost"), and sendmail does
the same thing.  <grin>