Configuring command line mail ...

Configuring command line mail ...

[Jamie Risk]

I'd like the ability to send quick e-mails, particularly from dinky little
scripts
(say perl), or from the command line of the form (syntax notwithstanding):
    [joe@joesMachine joe]# mailto joe@joeswork.com -s "Hi joe"

I appreciate there are numerous programs to choose from, I'm looking for
the simplest to configure, and am only really interested in the outgoing
mail.

Suggestions?

- Jamie




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Re: Configuring command line mail ...

[Jamie Risk]

Chris wrote:
>
> $ mail someone@somewhere.com < filename
>

Whose reponse I appreciate, and please believe I've tried that: as well as
many other variant programs.

*How do I configure it?*

Like most of my troubles with this RH installation, everything _promises_
to work, and when they don't I'm clueless where to turn. I'm approaching
the moment where I'll decide to start with a "clean/minimalist" installation
and install each component as I need them, so that I learn what's going
on in the process.




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Re: Configuring command line mail ...

[Ray Olszewski]

At 03:47 PM 12/20/02 -0500, Jamie Risk wrote:
>Chris wrote:
> >
> > $ mail someone@somewhere.com < filename
> >
>
>Whose reponse I appreciate, and please believe I've tried that: as well as
>many other variant programs.
>
>*How do I configure it?*

In the example Chris offered, there should be NOTHING to configure (beyond 
verifying that the app "mail" is installed and available to the userid ... 
"which mail" will serve that purpose ... though this is not a trivial step, 
since I see that my Debian workstation does not have "mail" installed) 
about the mail client.

If you need to configure OTHER things than your mail client (for example, 
sendmail or some other MTA, or DNS, or I-don't-know-what) you will need to 
ask a more detailed question then you have.

As a general matter, you get further on a troubleshooting list like this 
one when you describe the trouble you are having in more detail than you've 
done. Your original message posed a vague question in pseudocode form. It 
got an appropriately vague answer back.

If what really happened was: "I tried $ mail someone@somewhere.com < 
filename and it failed with this error:", try telling us that (quoting the 
EXACT command and the EXACT error) and you'll almost surely find us more 
helpful.

>Like most of my troubles with this RH installation, everything _promises_
>to work, and when they don't I'm clueless where to turn. I'm approaching
>the moment where I'll decide to start with a "clean/minimalist" installation
>and install each component as I need them, so that I learn what's going
>on in the process.

As a non-Red Hat user (I use Debian), I am hardly in a position to critique 
the quality of default RH installs. Complaints at that level are, I 
suppose, best directed to Red Hat, not a bunch of volunteers on a 
distribution-agnostic help list. Really, all we can do is try our best to 
help with problems that get described in enough detail that we can 
understand them.


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Re: Configuring command line mail ...

[dashielljt]

try ls .mailrc.  If you don't find it your mail program has no
configuration other than default.  You may have an entry in the man pages
for .mailrc man .mailrc if it's there will show you acceptable file format
and will also show you what your options are.  Understand that's good for
mail and I think mailx but not the other mail handlers.

Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net>

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Re: Configuring command line mail ...

[sean]

Hello Jamie!

01 Jan 70 01:00, Jamie Risk wrote to All:

 JR> *How do I configure it?*

if you are on redhats ? :)

up2date --install mutt

mutt is working out of the box !

 JR> Like most of my troubles with this RH installation, everything
 JR> _promises_ to work, and when they don't I'm clueless where to turn.

complain at redhat if you pay anything to them :)

 JR> I'm approaching the moment where I'll decide to start with a
 JR> "clean/minimalist" installation

try redhat 9, then install up2date, and use it :)

 JR> and install each component as I need them,

thats good way to laern it

 JR> so that I learn what's going on in the process.

bingo :)

 Regards Benny

... did you know Msged could add taglines ?

--- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/2.4.18-27.8.0 (i686))
 * Origin: ftp://junc.org/ binkd 0.9.5 xpoint@junc.org (110:300/15)
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