I need to email from the command line a previously created file. (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 is that I don't want to set up a local mail 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. One simplifying factor is that I need only to send an email-- don't have to read any. The remote server I'm using listens on port 993, uses SSL. I created a ~/.mailrc which contains this: account street \ from="gebser@speakeasy.net (ken) \ password-user@host=pass-word-w-dashes \ imap-auth=login alias dest: recip@host.tld The command I use-- well, one of them I've tried: echo '.' | nail -A street -q mailfile.in -s "test using nail" \ -r gebser@speakeasy.net dest The only error messages this and its variations yeild is: send-mail: warning: inet_protocols: IPv6 support is disabled: Address family not supported by protocol send-mail: warning: inet_protocols: configuring for IPv4 support only postdrop: warning: inet_protocols: IPv6 support is disabled: Address family not supported by protocol postdrop: warning: inet_protocols: configuring for IPv4 support only Help enough to get this working would be much appreciated. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org