-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-04-17 at 21:29 -0400, ken wrote:
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.
I don't think that's a good/wise idea. There are many applications needing it, starting with cron.
Don't know what you mean here.
That removing postfix is not wise.
The only error messages this and its variations yeild is:
postdrop: warning: inet_protocols: IPv6 support is disabled: Address family not supported by protocol postdrop: warning: inet_protocols: configuring for IPv4 support only
I think you are indeed using the local mail server - postdrop is part of it :-P
Postdrop may be part of it, but I don't have a local mail server running.
Yes, you do. Unless you uninstall postfix entirely, you are running it. And the system will complain about that removal.
According to the postdrop manpage, postdrop is a "Postfix mail posting utility". If nail calls a utility provided by postfix, I don't mind. But it isn't the same thing as running a mail server and doesn't mean that I need to run a mail server or that I am already running a mail server. Let me add that I don't need to run a mail server to do what I want to do right now and that I don't want to run a mail server for this particular purpose.
I refer you to what Joachim Schrod wrote in this thread, I would only be repeating his explanation. Having postfix (or sendmail or whatever) installed and running does not means your machine is a mail server, far from it. And Linux (and unix) is designed to have that functionality in the system.
So, anyone know how to use nail or other CLI MUA to send an email?
I have sent emails using nail. For the way you want it to work, Joachim already explained it. I also saw what he did see, and I concur with him. There is large information in the man page, but I would have to study it in depth to give you a working tutorial, and I have my own problems to solve... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGJYLstTMYHG2NR9URAjnDAJwIqHay1gBICIXsVD4gaVilwnUmJACdGeeU p01R5j+kQr64szvY8K3d5GQ= =SC/H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org