ken wrote:
Yes! You got it!!! And this was my original question!!!! Which mail client? Remember, I already mentioned mail/mailx/nail. The problem is that the documentation for these is worthless. So if anyone knows how to set up an account using ~/.nailrc and/or ~/.mailrc and/or CL args to set up the connection for /sending/ mail (WithOut a Local Server), we might be able to accomplish something.
The nail man page has an example for using the smtp clause in an account definition. Did you read about that clause? Did you try it? If it didn't work, what did "nail -v" output when you attempted to send mail? I have never used a Linux (or any other Unix system, for that matter) without a locally configured mail system -- it is a sure disaster waiting to happen. Therefore I was never in your situation. But when I just called "man nail" on my 10.0 system and simply searched for smtp, the example with an external SMTP server was the 5th match, there I saw that there is an smtp clause which looked like the obvious configuration option; and the smtp clause itself has promptly a good description as well. It took me more time to write this post than to find the relevant information. Look, if you can identify that information in the nail man page, if you think that it is worthless and not understandable, then you seem to be a newbie to such class of tasks -- and then you should stick to the recommended way of doing it (configure your local mail system). Or you invest in RTFM and ask _specific_ questions when you don't get that option to work. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org