Hello All,

First of all I am facing some problem on LinuxQuestions in posting the message. When I
start a New Thread, Subject line appears fine but Message window appears very narrow ie
5-6 characters wide & all smilies appear on right side of the message window instead on
the bottom side of it. So I am first preparing the text using Notepad & then will post
it using cut & post & hopefully the post is readable.

I am trying to install mailx on my new Xubuntu installation (& I am very new to Xubuntu).
When I entered:$ mailx -s "test" rakesh@kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw < /tmp/testmail.txt

I get the following msg:

The program 'mailx' can be found in the following packages:
* mailx
* mailutils
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>
Make sure you have the 'universe' component enabled
bash: mailx: command not found

I tried to install mailx by:

$ sudo apt-get install mailx
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
liblockfile1 postfix
Suggested packages:
procmail postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre sasl2-bin
resolvconf postfix-cdb
The following NEW packages will be installed:
liblockfile1 mailx postfix
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

On answering Y I get a screen on my Desk-top with following message: (Kindly pardon me
as the formatting of message is different on screen being a graphical output & I had to
remove boundaries before posting here. I captured the output by cut & pasted here & did
minor editing for better reading purposes & also as mentioned above). At this point the
Desk-top freezes & I can not press <OK> button as presented in the end of message. Kindly
suggest what mistake I am making & how to proceed with mailx installation?

Thanking you. Best regards, RAKESH

*********** Message on Desk-top *********************

Postfix Configuration

You have several choices for general configuration at this point. If you have your
debconf priority set to 'low' or 'medium', you will be asked more questions later.
You can always run "dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low postfix" at a later point if
you want to see these questions again.

No configuration - IF YOU WANT THE INSTALL TO LEAVE YOUR CONFIG ALONE, CHOOSE THIS
OPTION.
No configuration changes will be done now: If you have not already configured
Postfix, your mail system will be broken and should not be used. You must then
do the configuration yourself by editing /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist and
saving your changes as /etc/postfix/main.cf, or by running dpkg-reconfigure
Postfix.

main.cf will not be modified by the Postfix install process.

Internet site - mail is sent and received directly using SMTP. If your needs don't
fit neatly into any category, you probably want to start with this one and then
edit the config file by hand.

Internet site using smarthost - You receive Internet mail on this machine, either
directly by SMTP or by running a utility such as fetchmail. Outgoing mail is sent
using a smarthost.

optionally with addresses rewritten. This is probably what you want for a dialup
system.

Satellite system - All mail is sent to another machine, called a "smart host" for
delivery.

No mail is received locally.

Local delivery only - You are not on a network. Mail for local users is delivered.

<Ok>