Quoting Florian Zieboll via Dng (dng@???):

> 'msmtp' is a lightweight and simple option for sending messages to
> remote smtp servers from shell scripts. with a variable (e.g.
> "$mailcmd") it can be used as drop in replacement for mailx.

Generically, things like msmtp tend to be called 'nullmailers', after an
early example of the type. I try to track the known options, here:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/nullmailers.html

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