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Old 12-11-2012
If you don't know what your mailserver is, I suppose it wouldn't be a good idea to fiddle with it. Unfortunate.

I guess I'd go with something like this instead:

Code:
mysendmail() {
        # ignore parameters, do as we please
        sendmail ...
}

mymailx() {
        # Ignore parameters, do as we please
        mailx ...
}

MAILX="mailx"
SENDMAIL="sendmail"


if [ $HOSTNAME = "debugserver" ]
then
        MAILX="mymailx"
        SENDMAIL="mysendmail"
fi

...

echo $MESSAGE | $SENDMAIL username@host

I don't like it, since it means the actual mailing code doesn't get tested, and your code ends up with hardcoded hostnames in it.
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