Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3518 mails)

[ken <gebser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/17/2007 08:34 AM somebody named Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>>> I need to email from the command line a previously created file.  
> 
> If you want to e-mail a file vs. just a message look at the "nail"
> command,  very handy.

Yeah.  I was already there.  See the paragraph below (from my original
post).


> 
>> (The
>>> finished working command will go into cron and so should be completely
>>> programmatic.)  Using Linux, There are a few open source apps that
>>> should work: mail, mailx, and nail.  Weirdness is that they all share
>>> the same manpage.  So maybe they all work exactly the same (???).
>>> Or maybe I should say they all fail to work in the same way, because I
>>> can't get anything to work at all or to give a helpful error message.
>>> One complicating factor s that I don't want to set up a local mail
> 
> There is no reason not to setup the local MTA to use the central relay;
> it will save you allot of grief.

I've set up sendmail a few times, so I know what's involved.  As I said
in my original post, it isn't necessary and (for several reasons too
detailed to go into here) I don't want to do it.


> 
>>> server and according to the mail/mailx/nail manpage, I shouldn't have
>>> to.  (That much I can understand of the manpage.)  I have a remote mail
>>> (IMAPS/SSL) server which works perfectly fine with thunderbird.
>> This is wrong, the command line Tools all depend on Postfix/Sendmail to
>> provide the command line binary /usr/sbin/sendmail to put the mail into
>> the local Mailserver queue.
>> If you don't want that you should use mini_sendmail. That is a command
>> line tool to send an email directly to a remote smtp server.
> 
> Yast will setup postfix to do basic delivery to a central mail
> repository;  just run through the setup.  There is no reason not to have
> the local MTA configured.  You do not need to accept connections.

Yeah, I know.


> ....


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