mail command on gentoo

aeby · 05-04-2007, 09:16 AM

hi

i am new to gentoo, i am planning to write a script to send emails .
i am familiar with the mail command used to send email
mail -s "subject" user@mailbox.
but i am not able to find that command on gentto,
or is there anything similar to that command that can be used on gentoo.

please can anyone tell me a command that can be used to send emails from the command line.

Kind Regards,

comprookie2000 · 05-04-2007, 09:27 AM

I think you are looking for mailx, you may need to emerge it.

reddazz · 05-04-2007, 11:32 AM

The mail command is provided by a package called "nail".

aeby · 05-09-2007, 02:29 AM

hi,

i have emerged the mail command but when i use the mail command
it gives me the message

send-mail: Cannot open mail:25
Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1

i have tried mail, mailx and sendmail

mail -s test <mailid>
mailx -s test <mailid>
sendmail< mailid>

but all the commands i am issuing gives me the same message
i am running on gentoo 2005

Regards
Arsha

aeby · 05-09-2007, 02:33 AM

Hi,

i have also tried the mail command on a postfix machine

it gives me the error

postdrop: warning: unable to lookup public/pickup: No such file or directory

Please can anyone tell me how to get around this

Thanks in advance