mail to localhost

slimm609 · 02-10-2009, 07:48 PM

it has been awhile since i played with sendmail but i know there was a way to deliver email to your localbox using the mail command on that box without having sendmail actually running. Have they removed that option? or am i just missing something

your_shadow03 · 02-10-2009, 09:57 PM

Yes its there...Use this command:

Code:

echo "hello" | mail -vv root@localhost

slimm609 · 02-11-2009, 09:40 AM

I tried that but it looks like the new version of sendmail will not deliver mail locally without sendmail running. I get a connection refused by 127.0.0.1 and it sits as a deferred message.