sendmail to myself locally?
 

hi, i vaguely remember a time when every user got a default mailbox... Does that still happen or do you have to create one through an email client?

I need to use sendmail to send emails to my user mailbox on my local machine. I think once i figure out my mailbox I could just send it like this:

sendmail -t To: mymailbox@localhost Subject: none blah blah.


thanks for help.

on ubuntu the mail gets received in /var/mail/USERNAME usually. The command does not need the "To: From: Subject:" but a correct order of arguments. Send with ctrl-D

hmm okay. So if I wanted to send mail to a user named justin on my system via the command line with sendmail... what would i type?

Also do I need the sendmail daemon listening on 25? Without it sendmail just says it can't connect to 25 so I assume I do need the service running.