Mark Janssen wrote:

I've tried that but I cant get out of that...

Patrick Greenwell wrote:

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man mail

Then you haven't read the man page. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Greenwell, Support Account Manager, Fortune 500 SUSE LINUX, 1100 Sansome St., San Francisco, CA, 94111 T: +1 415 591 6607 - Cell: +1 510 499 7896 F: +1 510 591 6619 - patrick@suse.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------

I meant I don't understand it. Anders Johansson wrote:

On Thursday 05 February 2004 22.19, Mark Janssen wrote:

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I've tried that but I cant get out of that...

Do you mean you don't know how to quit the man page reader?

Just hit q

Ken Hughes wrote:

Mark Janssen wrote:

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Hi,

How can I send an email via the command line? Not with mutt or anything, just "command from to subject body".

Regards,

Mark

mail -s "Some subject -r doofus@here.com recipient@somewhere.com

Sorry...just realized I left the closing " off of the -s parameter, meaning some non-man page reading newbie may try this get foundered on the rocks... Ken

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 22:36, Carlos E. R. wrote:

The Thursday 2004-02-05 at 21:47 +0100, Mark Janssen wrote:

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How can I send an email via the command line? Not with mutt or anything, just "command from to subject body".

cat somefile | nail \ -s "subject" \ -b "bcc addres" -r "remitent" "Toaddress" -a "attach_file"

"nail" is "mailx" in SuSE, and "mail" is a link to "nail" (as of SuSE 8.2). Exit by typing "." on an empty line.

But only if you've configured postfix (or sendmail, depending on what you're running). nail (mail) depends on it. I learned this the hard way about three weeks ago.

-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -- Daryl Lee Open the Present, it's a Gift.

Sat, 07 Feb 2004, by robin1.listas@tiscali.es:

The Thursday 2004-02-05 at 23:01 -0500, Daryl Lee wrote:

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"nail" is "mailx" in SuSE, and "mail" is a link to "nail" (as of SuSE 8.2). Exit by typing "." on an empty line.

But only if you've configured postfix (or sendmail, depending on what you're running). nail (mail) depends on it. I learned this the hard way about three weeks ago.

But of course! Any Linux system is supposed to have a mail server working, otherwise many things don't work. For example, if a cron job fails, it will email the owner... and this will not work. When Yast installs packages, sometimes the root is emailed news he should know about it...

Depends on what you call a 'mail server' Normally it is sufficient to have the 'sendmail' binary available, as that is what programs like cron, {sn,xm}ail etc use. It only requires the sendmail (dropin) to be correctly configured for the local mail delivery agent, like e.g. procmail, or for a direct drop-off in /var/spool/mail/$USER. I never came across a Linux distro were this didn't work out-the-box. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. SUSE 8.2 Kernel k_athlon-2.4.20 See headers for PGP/GPG info.