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04-03-2006, 02:51 PM
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Registered: May 2005
Location: North Carolina
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 123
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run mail from terminal
In FC3 I could use the command "mail" in the terminal to send mail, but in gentoo, I can't. What programs do I need installed to do this and/or what different command should I use?
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04-03-2006, 05:44 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: UK
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 3,467
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You could use mutt:
mutt someone@someplace.org |
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04-03-2006, 06:32 PM
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LQ Sage
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Saint Amant, Acadiana
Distribution: Gentoo ~amd64
Posts: 7,675
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mail-client/mailx
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04-03-2006, 09:44 PM
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Registered: May 2005
Location: North Carolina
Distribution: Gentoo
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mailx worked...thx
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04-03-2006, 09:54 PM
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Registered: May 2005
Location: North Carolina
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 123
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ok so now i have the mail command, how do i get it to send mail...i run the command, and it just hangs without sending mail...what else do i need?
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04-04-2006, 12:28 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Sydney
Distribution: Rocky 9.x
Posts: 18,442
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You need a mailserver (MTA: mail tranport agent) eg sendmail. mailx is a mail client (MUA: mail user agent)
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04-04-2006, 10:32 AM
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Member
Registered: May 2005
Location: North Carolina
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 123
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Do I just need to run sendmail as a daemon in order to get this to work, also I see you use Gentoo, could you post your sendmail config file?
THX
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04-04-2006, 11:07 AM
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LQ Sage
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Saint Amant, Acadiana
Distribution: Gentoo ~amd64
Posts: 7,675
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Hehee, I do not use sendmail. I used once and I remember I had a look at it's conf file ... it was a very long look. It sure is not postable here. Exim is good and my favorite is postfix.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-ma....xml#doc_chap2 |
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