On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 21:12:42 +0200 Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 20:01:27 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 12/06/2020 19.53, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
Dave Howorth wrote:
Thanks, Per. I was hoping to avoid 3.7 MB of stuff just to send a mail message, plus I'm somewhat intimidated by the postfix man page. Do I just need to set those lines in some file (which file?) and do nothing else, except perhaps have to do some systemd trickery to start the service?
On some older netboot machines I use a program called 'nail' for that. There's no package for it in OS, and I forgot where I found it. Guess it was a Slackware package (that is what runs on there). It's extremely convenient for this kind of things....
Ooops! Googling for it, it seems this is now 'Heirloom mailx', http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html, which is what you actually get with the 'mailx' package in OS :P
Yes, I remember "mail" being changed to "nail" at some time or as an alternative, then being replaced with "mailx".
But mail(x) sends mail via postfix, at least on opensuse.
<nitpick> mailx sends mail via sendmail, the standard Unix mail interface. Postfix comes with a sendmail wrapper that just drops the mail into the queue. </nitpick>
Well, OK, I should have said 'opensuse by default' :) I just looked at the logs. I haven't configured anything except my MUA.
Whether you have postfix, sendmail or exim or qmail, mailx will never know or care.
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