commandline mail does not seem to work
 

Hi
I am having problems with the mail command. Either I am not able to send mail or I am not receiving. I am not sure which is the problem.

I followed the instructions here.

I tried to send mail to root and from root back to me respectively:
I am not receiving the mail when I check the mail either as root or myself.

Ultimately I want to email myself /var/log/messages to myemail@@gmail.com address on a regular basis using logrotate.
Please see my other post regarding sending mail via smtp here.
That does not seem to work either.

I installed an updated version of mailutils and it still no changes. I believe mail and mailx is in the mailutils package.

I am able to read the man mail on my system so it must be installed. Root also has mail that was added on the slackware install.

And finally, I cannot find the mail.rc files. I searched my system and can't find it.

The UNIX/Linux mail command is working fine. It's the other utilities you need in place to get the mail off your system and sent to wherever you want it to go.

A Gentoo example:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/guide-to-mutt.xml

I appreciate the response,
However I have a few questions.

ok... if mail will not work.
And fetchmail, smtp, mutt will work; how do I set logrotate to send mail through smtp?. Its default is mail -s.

Thanks okos